¹² How much more valuable is a person than a sheep!^(A) Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.^(A) Are you not much more valuable than they?^(B)

⁹ Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”

⁴ Then Jesus asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they remained silent.

³¹ So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.^(A)