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- At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them.
- When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath."
- He answered, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
- He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread--which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.
- Or haven't you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple desecrate the day and yet are innocent?
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- I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.
- If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent.
- For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."
- Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue,
- and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, they asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"
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- He said to them, "If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?
- How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."
- Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other.
- But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.
- Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. Many followed him, and he healed all their sick,
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- warning them not to tell who he was.
- This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
- "Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
- He will not quarrel or cry out; no one will hear his voice in the streets.
- A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory.
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- In his name the nations will put their hope."
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