In Context

5 Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

6 But I say to you, that in this place is one greater than the temple.

7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath.

9 And when he had departed thence, he went into their synagogue.

10 And behold, there was a man who had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath? that they might accuse him.

Matthew 12:8 in Other Translations