Lord of the Sabbath (κυριος του σαββατου). This claim that he as the Son of Man is master of the Sabbath and so above the Pharisai…

The account contained in these verses is recorded also in Mark 3:1-5; Luke 6:6–10.

He went into their synagogue — that is, the synagogue of the Pharisees whom He had just reproved; it was probably, therefore, the …

The time arrived when the Sabbath question came up again in reference to our Lord’s own work among the sick and diseased.

Jesus set the exam…

St. Jerome: Because He had vindicated His disciples with sound examples from the charge of breaking the Sabbath, the Pharisee…

The action moves from the field to the synagogue. Matthew makes plain the malice in the Pharisees. The form of the their question in v.10 is genera…

And having departed from there. This narrative and that which immediately precedes it have the same object: to show that the scribes watch…

And when he was departed thence
From the corn fields, where the disciples had plucked the ears of corn, and this con…

Christ shows that works of mercy are lawful and proper to be done on the Lord's day. There are more ways of doing well on Sabbath days than by the …