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Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>3\u00a0<\/sup>He answered,\u00a0<mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f90101\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\">\u201cHaven\u2019t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?\u00a0<sup>4\u00a0<\/sup>He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread\u2014which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.\u00a0<sup>5\u00a0<\/sup>Or haven\u2019t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath\u00a0and yet are innocent?\u00a0<sup>6\u00a0<\/sup>I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.\u00a0<sup>7\u00a0<\/sup>If you had known what these words mean, \u2018I desire mercy, not sacrifice,\u2019\u00a0you would not have condemned the innocent.\u00a0<sup>8\u00a0<\/sup>For the Son of Man\u00a0is Lord of the Sabbath.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>9&nbsp;<\/sup>Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue,&nbsp;<sup>10&nbsp;<\/sup>and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to bring charges against Jesus,&nbsp;they asked him, \u201cIs it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>11\u00a0<\/sup>He said to them,\u00a0<mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#fc0000\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\">\u201cIf 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?\u00a0<sup>12\u00a0<\/sup>How much more valuable is a person than a sheep!\u00a0Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>13\u00a0<\/sup>Then he said to the man,\u00a0<mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f90000\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\">\u201cStretch out your hand.\u201d\u00a0<\/mark>So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other.\u00a0<sup>14\u00a0<\/sup>But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12&nbsp;At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. 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