18Now John's
disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came
and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples
of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"
19And Jesus said
to them, "Can the wedding guests fast while the
bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom
with them, they cannot fast.
20The days
will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and
then they will fast in that day.
21No one
sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he
does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old,
and a worse tear is made.
22And no one
puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will
burst the skins--and the wine is destroyed, and so are the
skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins."
Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath
23One Sabbath he
was going through the grainfields, and as they made their
way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.
24And the
Pharisees were saying to him, "Look, why are they doing what
is not lawful on the Sabbath?"
25And he said to
them,
"Have you never read what David did, when he was
in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him:
26how he
entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high
priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not
lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to
those who were with him?"
27And he said to
them,
"The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the
Sabbath. 28So
the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."
Mark 3
A Man with a Withered Hand
1Again he
entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered
hand.
2And they
watched Jesus,
[b]
to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that
they might accuse him.
3And
he said to the man with the withered hand,
"Come here." 4And he said
to them,
"Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to
do harm, to save life or to kill?" But they were
silent.
5And he
looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness
of heart, and said to the man,
"Stretch out your hand."
He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
6The Pharisees
went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians
against him, how to destroy him.
