MATTHEW 12 1-13

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1 - It was at about this time that Jesus was walking past grain fields on the Sabbath and his disciples were hungry, so they began to pluck heads of grain eat them. 2 And when some Pharisees (leaders of the nation) saw it, they said to him, “It’s not lawful for your disciples to do that on the Sabbath!” 3 But he said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him? 4 How he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence! Which isn’t lawful for anyone to eat but the priests?

     5 Have you read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple service violate the Sabbath and are free of guilt? 6 I say to you, something greater than the temple is here. 7 And if you had known what it means - ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t condemn the innocent. 8 For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

     9 He went on from there and entered the synagogue. 10 And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, hoping to accuse him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” 11 He said, “Which one of you who has a lamb, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, won’t take hold of it and lift it out? 12 And of how much more value is a man than a sheep! It’s lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, whole and healthy like the other.

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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 12:14-21

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What we pursue is what we conform to?