1. At that time יהושע went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. And His taught ones were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain, to eat.
2. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your taught ones are doing what is not right to do on the Sabbath!”
3. But He said to them, “Have you not read what Dawiḏ did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:
4. how he went into the House of Elohim and ate the showbread which was not right for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
5. “Or did you not read in the Torah that on the Sabbath the priests in the Set-apart Place profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?
6. “But I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the Set-apart Place.
7. “And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering,’ you would not have condemned the blameless.
8. “For the Son of Aḏam is Master of the Sabbath.”
9. And having left there, He went into their congregation.
10. And see, there was a man having a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, “Is it right to heal on the Sabbath?” – so as to accuse Him.
11. And He said to them, “What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, shall not take hold of it and lift it out?
12. “How much more worth is a man than a sheep! So it is right to do good on the Sabbath.”
13. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and it was restored, as healthy as the other.
14. But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against Him, so as to destroy Him.
15. But יהושע, knowing it, withdrew from there. And large crowds followed Him, and He healed them all,