5 [2:23]And he was passing on the sabbath through the grain fields, and his disciples began to make their way, picking heads of grain. [2:24]And the Pharisees said to him, See what they do on the sabbath, which it is not lawful to do. [2:25]And he said to them, Have you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry? both he and those with him? [2:26]How he entered into the house of God under Abiathar the chief priest, and eat the show bread, which it was not lawful to eat, except for the priests, and gave also to them that were with him? [2:27]And he said to them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath; [2:28]so that the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath. 6 [3:1]And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there having a withered hand. [3:2]And they watched him [to see] if he would cure him on the sabbath, that they might accuse him. [3:3]And he said to the man having the withered hand, Arise in the midst. [3:4]And he said to them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? And they were silent. [3:5]And looking around on them in anger, being grieved at the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, Stretch out your hand. And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. [3:6]And the Pharisees went out immediately with the Herodians, and took counsel against him to kill him. 7 [3:7]And Jesus went away with his disciples to the lake; and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, [3:8]and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan. And those about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing what he did, came to him. [3:9]And he told his disciples to have a boat constantly attend him on account of the multitude, that they might not throng him. [3:10]For he cured many, so that all who had diseases fell down before him, that they might touch him; [3:11]and the impure spirits when they saw him fell down before him, and cried, saying, You are the Son of God. [3:12] And he strictly charged them not to make him known. CHAPTER III. CHRIST CALLING THE TWELVE APOSTLES, THE CHARACTER OF HIS MIRACLES, ETC., AND HIS LOVE FOR HIS DISCIPLES.