“And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?”
King James Version (KJV)
12:9 #Mark 3:1|; Luke 6:6.
12:12 It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day - To save a beast, much more a man.
Mt 12:11 What man . . . shall have one sheep? etc. Such an act of mercy to a beast was allowed and usual then.