Sabbath Controversies: Grain, Healing, and Plot Against Jesus
Mark 2:23-3:6
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Chapter 2
23One Sabbath he was passing through the grainfields, and his disciples began to make their way, plucking the heads of grain.24And the Pharisees said to him, "Look, what they are doing on the Sabbaths—what is not permitted!"25And he said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he was hungry—he and those with him?"26how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the showbread loaves, which it is not permitted to eat except for the priests, and also gave to those who were with him?27And he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath."28So the Lord of the Son of Humanity is also Lord of the Sabbath.
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Chapter 3
1And he entered the synagogue again, and there was a man there who had a withered hand.2And they were watching him to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him.3And he says to the man with the withered hand, "Get up in the middle."4He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save a life or to kill?" But they were silent.5He looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.6The Pharisees immediately went out and took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.