1. One Sabbath when Jesus and his disciples were walking through some wheat fields, the disciples picked some wheat. They rubbed the husks off with their hands and started eating the grain.
2. Some Pharisees said, “Why are you picking grain on the Sabbath? You're not supposed to do that!”
3. Jesus answered, “Surely you have read what David did when he and his followers were hungry.
4. He went into the house of God and took the sacred loaves of bread that only priests were supposed to eat. He not only ate some himself, but even gave some to his followers.”
5. Jesus finished by saying, “The Son of Man is Lord over the Sabbath.”
6. On another Sabbath Jesus was teaching in a Jewish meeting place, and a man with a crippled right hand was there.
7. Some Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses kept watching Jesus to see if he would heal the man. They did this because they wanted to accuse Jesus of doing something wrong.
8. Jesus knew what they were thinking. So he told the man to stand up where everyone could see him. And the man stood up.