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Matthew 12: 1-14
\n1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, \u201cLook, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.\u201d 3 He said to them, \u201cHave you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests. 5 Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests in the temple break the sabbath and yet are guiltless? 6 I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. 7 But if you had known what this means, \u2018I desire mercy and not sacrifice,\u2019 you would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.\u201d
\n9 He left that place and entered their synagogue; 10 a man was there with a withered hand, and they asked him, \u201cIs it lawful to cure on the sabbath?\u201d so that they might accuse him. 11 He said to them, \u201cSuppose one of you has only one sheep and it falls into a pit on the sabbath; will you not lay hold of it and lift it out? 12 How much more valuable is a human being than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.\u201d 13 Then he said to the man, \u201cStretch out your hand.\u201d He stretched it out, and it was restored, as sound as the other. 14 But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.
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