1. While he was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.
2. Some Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”
3. Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you not read what David did when he and those [who were] with him were hungry?
4. [How] he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering, which only the priests could lawfully eat, ate of it, and shared it with his companions.”
5. Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”
6. On another sabbath he went into the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered.
7. The scribes and the Pharisees watched him closely to see if he would cure on the sabbath so that they might discover a reason to accuse him.
8. But he realized their intentions and said to the man with the withered hand, “Come up and stand before us.” And he rose and stood there.
9. Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?”
10. Looking around at them all, he then said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so and his hand was restored.