(18)And the disciples of John, and the Pharisees, were fasting[2:18]; and they come and say to him: Why do the disciples of John and the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? (19)And Jesus said to them: Can the sons of the bridechamber fast[2:19], while the bridegroom is with them? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can not fast. (20)But days will come, when the bridegroom will be taken from them; and then they will fast in that day. (21)No one sews a piece of unfulled cloth upon an old garment; else the new filling up of the old takes from it, and a worse rent is made. (22)And no one puts new wine into old skins; else the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is destroyed, and the skins[2:22]. (23)And it came to pass, that he went through the grain-fields on the sabbath; and his disciples began to go forward[2:23], plucking the ears of grain. (24)And the Pharisees said to him: Behold, why do they on the sabbath that which is not lawful? (25)And he said to them: Did ye never read what David did, when he had need and hungered, himself and they who were with him; (26)how he went into the house of God, in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the show-bread, which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him? (27)And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath. (28)So that the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. III. AND he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there, having his hand withered. (2)And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath; that they might accuse him. (3)And he says to the man having the withered hand: Arise, and come into the midst. (4)And he says to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath, or to do evil; to save life, or to kill? But they were silent. (5)And looking round on them with anger, being grieved for their hardness of heart, he says to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and his hand was restored. (6)And going out, the Pharisees immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. (7)And Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea. And a great multitude from Galilee followed; and from Judaea, (8)and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from beyond the Jordan, and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him. (9)And he spoke to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, that they might not throng him. (10)For he healed many, so that they pressed upon him to touch him, as many as had plagues. (11)And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying: Thou art the Son of God. (12)And he strictly charged them that they should not make him known.