4. how he went into the House of Elohim and ate the showbread which was not right for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
5. “Or did you not read in the Torah that on the Sabbath the priests in the Set-apart Place profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?
6. “But I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the Set-apart Place.
7. “And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering,’ you would not have condemned the blameless.
8. “For the Son of Aḏam is Master of the Sabbath.”
9. And having left there, He went into their congregation.
10. And see, there was a man having a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, “Is it right to heal on the Sabbath?” – so as to accuse Him.
11. And He said to them, “What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, shall not take hold of it and lift it out?
12. “How much more worth is a man than a sheep! So it is right to do good on the Sabbath.”
13. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and it was restored, as healthy as the other.