3. He answered, ‘Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
4. He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread – which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.
5. Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?
6. I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.
7. If you had known what these words mean, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice,” you would not have condemned the innocent.
8. For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.’
9. Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue,
10. and a man with a shrivelled hand was there. Looking for a reason to bring charges against Jesus, they asked him, ‘Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?’
11. He said to them, ‘If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?