But, when the Pharisees saw this, they said: "Look! your disciples are doing what it is not allowable to do on a Sabbath!"
And there he saw a man with a withered hand. Some people asked Jesus whether it was allowable to work a cure on the Sabbath- -so that they might have a charge to bring against him.
"Have not you read," replied Jesus, "what David did, when he and his companions were hungry--
"Look!" the Pharisees said to him, "why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?"
"Is it allowable," said Jesus, addressing the Students of the Law and the Pharisees, "to work a cure on the Sabbath, or is it not?"
And then went home, and prepared spices and perfumes. During the Sabbath they rested, as directed by the commandment
"Why are you doing what it is not allowable to do on the Sabbath?" asked some of the Pharisees.