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Sabbath Controversies: Grain, Healing, and Plot Against Jesus

Mark 2:23-3:6

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Chapter 2
23 One Sabbath he was passing through the grainfields, and his disciples began to make their way, plucking the heads of grain. 24 And the Pharisees said to him, "Look, what they are doing on the Sabbaths—what is not permitted!" 25 And 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?" 26 how 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? 27 And he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." 28 So the Lord of the Son of Humanity is also Lord of the Sabbath.
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Chapter 3
1 And he entered the synagogue again, and there was a man there who had a withered hand. 2 And they were watching him to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. 3 And he says to the man with the withered hand, "Get up in the middle." 4 He 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. 5 He 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. 6 The Pharisees immediately went out and took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.