3. But he said unto them,
4. How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them who were with him, but only for the priests?
5. Or have you not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
6. But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
7. But if you had known what this means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless.
8. For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
9. And when he was departed from there, he went into their synagogue:
10. And, behold, there was a man who had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
11. And he said unto them,
12. How much then is a man better than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
13. Then he said to the man,
14. Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
15. But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from there: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;
16. And charged them that they should not make him known: