to them: Can the children of the marriage fast, as
long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom
with them, they cannot fast.

2:20. But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away
from them: and then they shall fast in those days.

2:21. No man seweth a piece of raw cloth to an old garment: otherwise
the new piecing taketh away from the old, and there is made a greater
rent.

2:22. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the wine
will burst the bottles, and both the wine will be spilled and the
bottles will be lost. But new wine must be put into new bottles.

2:23. And it came to pass again, as the Lord walked through the corn
fields on the sabbath, that his disciples began to go forward and to
pluck the ears of corn.

2:24. And the Pharisees said to him: Behold, why do they on the sabbath
day that which is not lawful?

2:25. And he said to them: Have you never read what David did when he
had need and was hungry, himself and they that were with him?

2:26. How he went into the house of God, under Abiathar the high priest,
and did eat the loaves of proposition, which was not lawful to eat but
for the priests, and gave to them who were with him?

2:27. And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for
the sabbath.

2:28. Therefore the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath also.

Mark Chapter 3

Christ heals the withered hand. He chooses the twelve. He confutes the
blasphemy of the Pharisees.

3:1. And he entered again into the synagogue: and there was a man there
who had a withered hand.

3:2. And they watched him whether he would heal on the sabbath days,
that they might accuse him.

3:3. And he said to the man who had the withered hand: Stand up in the
midst.

3:4. And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days,
or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy? But they held their peace.

3:5. And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the
blindness of their hearts, he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand.
And he stretched it forth: and his hand was restored unto him.

3:6. And the Pharisees going out, immediately made a consultation with
the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

3:7. But Jesus retired with his disciples to the sea; and a great
multitude followed him from Galilee and Judea,

3:8. And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and from beyond the Jordan. And
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