25At that time Jesus answered and said: I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning, and reveal them to babes; 26yea, O Father, that so it seemed good in thy sight! 27All things were delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son but the Father; nor does any one know the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son is pleased to reveal him.
28Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.
XII. At that time Jesus went on the sabbath through the grain-fields; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck ears of grain, and to eat. 2And the Pharisees seeing it said to him: Behold, thy disciples are doing that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath. 3And he said to them: Have ye not read what David did, when he hungered, himself and those with him; 4how he entered into the house of God, and ate the show-bread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those with him, but for the priests alone? 5Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless? 6But I say to you, that a greater than the temple is here. 7But if ye had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the blameless. 8For the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath.
9And departing from thence, he went into their synagogue. 10And behold, there was a man, having his hand withered. And they asked him, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath? that they might accuse him. 11And he said to them: What man will there be of you, that shall have one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath, will not lay hold of it, and raise it up? 12How much better then is a man than a sheep! So that it is lawful to do well on the sabbath. 13Then he says to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, as the other.
14And the Pharisees went out, and took counsel against him, how they might destroy him. 15But Jesus, knowing it, withdrew from thence; and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all. 16And he charged them that they should not make him known; 17that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying:
18Behold my servant, whom I chose,
My beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased.
I will put my spirit upon him,
And he will declare judgment to the Gentiles.
19He will not strive, nor cry;