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One Sabbath day as Jesus was walking through some grainfields, his disciples broke off heads of grain, rubbed off the husks in their hands, and ate the grain.
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But some Pharisees said, “Why are you breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath?”
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Jesus replied, “Haven’t you read in the Scriptures what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
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He went into the house of God and broke the law by eating the sacred loaves of bread that only the priests can eat. He also gave some to his companions.”
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And Jesus added, “The Son of Man is Lord, even over the Sabbath.”
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On another Sabbath day, a man with a deformed right hand was in the synagogue while Jesus was teaching.
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The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely. If he healed the man’s hand, they planned to accuse him of working on the Sabbath.
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But Jesus knew their thoughts. He said to the man with the deformed hand, “Come and stand in front of everyone.” So the man came forward.