from them; then they will fast.
002:021 No one mends an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth.
Otherwise, the patch put on would tear away from it--
the new from the old--and a worse hole would be made.
002:022 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the wine
would burst the skins, and both wine and skins would be lost.
New wine needs fresh skins!"
002:023 One Sabbath He was walking through the wheatfields when His
disciples began to pluck the ears of wheat as they went.
002:024 So the Pharisees said to Him, "Look! why are they doing what on
the Sabbath is unlawful?"
002:025 "Have you never read," Jesus replied, "what David did when
the necessity arose and he and his men were hungry:
002:026 how he entered the house of God in the High-priesthood of Abiathar,
and ate the Presented Loaves--which none but the priests
are allowed to eat--and gave some to his men also?"
002:027 And Jesus said to them: "The Sabbath was made for man,
not man for the Sabbath;
002:028 so that the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."
003:001 At another time, when He went to the synagogue, there was a man
there with one arm shrivelled up.
003:002 They closely watched Him to see whether He would cure him
on the Sabbath--so as to have a charge to bring against Him.
003:003 "Come forward," said He to the man with the shrivelled arm.
003:004 Then He asked them, "Are we allowed to do good on the Sabbath,
or to do evil? to save a life, or to destroy one?"
They remained silent.
003:005 Grieved and indignant at the hardening of their hearts,
He looked round on them with anger, and said to the man,
"Stretch out your arm." He stretched it out, and the arm