6 I tell you that there is something here greater than the temple.
7 Don't you know what the Scriptures mean when they say, “Instead of offering sacrifices to me, I want you to be merciful to others”? If you knew what this means, you would not condemn these innocent disciples of mine.
8 So the Son of Man is Lord over the Sabbath.
9 Jesus left and went into one of the Jewish meeting places,
10 where there was a man whose hand was crippled. Some Pharisees wanted to accuse Jesus of doing something wrong, and they asked him, “Is it right to heal someone on the Sabbath?”
11 Jesus answered, “If you had a sheep that fell into a ditch on the Sabbath, wouldn't you lift it out?
12 People are worth much more than sheep, and so it is right to do good on the Sabbath.”