Matthew 12:1 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹ About the same time Jesus walked through the corn-fields one Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and began to pick some ears of wheat and eat them.

²³ One Sabbath, as Jesus was walking through the cornfields, his disciples began to pick the ears of wheat as they went along. ²⁴ "Look!" the Pharisees said to him, "why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?" ²⁵ "Have you never read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was in want and hungry, he and his companions-- ²⁶ How he went into the House of God, in the time of Abiathar the High Priest, and ate 'the consecrated bread,' which only the priests are allowed to eat, and gave some to his comrades as well?" ²⁷ Then Jesus added: "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath; ²⁸ So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."

¹ One Sabbath Jesus was walking through cornfields, and hi disciples were picking the ears of wheat, and rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. ² "Why are you doing what it is not allowable to do on the Sabbath?" asked some of the Pharisees. ³ Jesus' answer was: "Have not you read even of what David did, when he was hungry, he and his companions-- ⁴ That he went into the House of God, and took the consecrated bread and ate it, and gave some to his companions, though only the priests are allowed to eat it?" ⁵ Then Jesus added: "The Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."