5 Or haven’t you read in the Law that on Sabbath days the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and are innocent?
6 But I tell you that something greater than the temple is here!
7 If you had known what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent.
8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
9 Moving on from there, He entered their synagogue.
10 There He saw a man who had a paralyzed hand. And in order to accuse Him they asked Him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? ”
11 But He said to them, “What man among you, if he had a sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, wouldn’t take hold of it and lift it out?