How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

Then they went to Capernaum. When the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

They watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they could accuse him.

Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,

So the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

So he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he began to teach the people.

But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

A man was there who had a withered hand. And they asked Jesus, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” so that they could accuse him.

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.

Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?” But they were silent.

At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on a Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pick heads of wheat and eat them.

He said to them, “Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?