is easy, and my burden is light.

CHAP. XII.

AT that time Jesus walked through corn-fields on a sabbath-day; and his
disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
(2)But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, Behold, thy
disciples do a thing that it is not lawful to do on the sabbath. (3)And
he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry,
and they who were with him? (4)how they went into the house of God, and
did eat the loaves of shew-bread, of which it was not lawful for him or
those who were with him to eat, but for the priests alone? (5)Or have
ye not read in the law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple
profane the sabbath, and are not culpable? (6)Now I tell you, That one
greater than the temple is here. (7)But if ye had known what that
meant, I desire mercy and not sacrifice; ye would not have condemned
the innocent. (8)For the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

(9)And going on from thence, he came into their synagogue; (10)and,
behold a man was there who had a withered hand. And they asked him,
saying, Is it lawful to heal on sabbath days? that they might accuse
him. (11)Then he said to them; What man of you is there who hath one
sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath, doth he not lay hold
on him, and lift him out? (12)Of how much more value then is a man than
a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do good on the sabbath days.
(13)Then saith he to the man, Stretch out thy hand; and he stretched it
out, and it was restored, sound as the other.

(14)Then the Pharisees went out, and held a consultation against him,
how they might make away with him. (15)But Jesus knew it, and retired
from thence, and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all,
(16)and charged them that they should not make him known. (17)That what
was spoken by Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, saying,
(18)"Behold, my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, in whom my
soul delighteth: I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim
judgment for the heathen. (19)He shall not contend, nor be clamorous;
neither shall any man in the streets hear his voice. (20)A bruised reed
shall he not break down, and smoking flax shall he not quench, until he
break forth in judgment for victory. (21)And in his name shall the
Gentiles hope."

(22)Then was brought to him a demoniac, blind and dumb; and he cured
him, so as to enable the blind and dumb both to speak