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Matthew 12:1-14 — Lord of the Sabbath

Matt.12.1-14

¹At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and eat. ²But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, 'Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.' ³He said to them, 'Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those with him?' ⁴How he entered the house of God and they ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those with him, but only for the priests? ⁵Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and yet are innocent? ⁶But I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. ⁷If you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent. ⁸For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. ⁹And departing from there, he went into their synagogue. ¹⁰And behold, there was a man with a withered hand. And they asked him, 'Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?' so that they might accuse him. ¹¹He said to them, 'Which one of you will have one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out?' ¹²How much more, then, is a man worth than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. ¹³Then he said to the man, 'Stretch out your hand.' And he stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other. ¹⁴But the Pharisees went out and plotted together against him, how they might destroy him.

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5/7/2026

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