as He said these things, all those who opposed Him were put to shame, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious deeds being done by Him.

And like it is what he said in the twelfth chapter of the Gospel of (Matthew): At that time Jesus went on the Sabbath through the grainfields, and His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him:

"Behold, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!" Then he said to them: "Have you not read what David did when he and those with him were hungry? How he entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the Torah that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless? But I say to you: That in this place there is one greater than the temple. If you had known what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the blameless. For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath also."

Then he departed from there and came into their synagogue. And behold, there was a man whose hand was withered.

So they asked him, saying: "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbaths?"—that they might accuse him. He said to them: "What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he