Matthew 12:4-14

4 how he entered the house of God and ate ¹the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

5 Or have you not read ²in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?

6 I tell you, ³something greater than the temple is here.

7 And if you had known ⁴what this means, ⁵'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

8 For ⁶the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."

A Man with a Withered Hand

9 He went on from there and ⁷entered their synagogue.

10 And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, ⁸"Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"--⁹so that they might accuse him.

11 He said to them, "Which one of you who has a sheep, ¹⁰if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?

12 ¹¹Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So ¹²it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."

13 Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And ¹³the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other.

14 But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.