1. Now it happened that, on the second first Sabbath, as he passed through the grain field, his disciples were separating the ears of grain and eating them, by rubbing them in their hands.
2. Then certain Pharisees said to them, "Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbaths?"
3. And responding to them, Jesus said: "Have you not read this, what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him?
4. How he entered into the house of God, and took the bread of the Presence, and ate it, and gave it to those who were with him, though it is not lawful for anyone to eat it, except the priests alone?"
5. And he said to them, "For the Son of man is Lord, even of the Sabbath."
6. And it happened that, on another Sabbath, he entered into the synagogue, and he taught. And there was a man there, and his right hand was withered.
7. And the scribes and Pharisees observed whether he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might thereby find an accusation against him.
8. Yet truly, he knew their thoughts, and so he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Rise up and stand in the middle." And rising up, he stood still.