4. How he went into the house of God and ate the loaves of the showbread–which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for the men who accompanied him, but for the priests only?
5. Or have you never read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the sanctity of the Sabbath [breaking it] and yet are guiltless? [Num. 28:9, 10.]
6. But I tell you, Something greater and more exalted and more majestic than the temple is here!
7. And if you had only known what this saying means, I desire mercy [readiness to help, to spare, to forgive] rather than sacrifice and sacrificial victims, you would not have condemned the guiltless. [Hos. 6:6; Matt. 9:13.]
8. For the Son of Man is Lord [even] of the Sabbath.
9. And going on from there, He went into their synagogue.
10. And behold, a man was there with one withered hand. And they said to Him, Is it lawful or allowable to cure people on the Sabbath days?–that they might accuse Him.
11. But He said to them, What man is there among you, if he has only one sheep and it falls into a pit or ditch on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?
12. How much better and of more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful and allowable to do good on the Sabbath days.
13. Then He said to the man, Reach out your hand. And the man reached it out and it was restored, as sound as the other one.
14. But the Pharisees went out and held a consultation against Him, how they might do away with Him.
15. But being aware of this, Jesus went away from there. And many people joined and accompanied Him, and He cured all of them,