Old Testament

Matthew 12:1-8
Lord of the Sabbath
121At that time, Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick heads of grain and eat them. 2But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, what your disciples are doing is unlawful on the Sabbath.”
3But he said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4He entered God's house and ate the Bread of the Presence, which was lawful only for the priests to eat, not for him or his companions. 5Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath days, the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and yet are innocent? 6But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. 7Yet if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’[] you would not have condemned the innocent. 8For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

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