6. But I say unto you, that there is here what is greater than the temple.
7. But if ye had known what is: I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
8. For the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath.
9. And, going away from thence, he came into their synagogue.
10. And behold, there was a man having his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath? that they might accuse him.
11. But he said to them, What man shall there be of you who has one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath, will not lay hold of it and raise it up?
12. How much better then is a man than a sheep! So that it is lawful to do well on the sabbath.
13. Then he says to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched it out, and it was restored sound as the other.
14. But the Pharisees, having gone out, took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.