Matthew 12:3-7 But he said to them, Have you not read what David did, when he himself was hungry and those with him;

MLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ But he said to them, Have you not read what David did, when he himself was hungry and those with him; ⁴ how he entered into the house of God and ate the showbread, which was not legal for him to eat, nor those with him, unlawful except for the priests only? ⁵ Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and yet are crimeless? ⁶ But I saying to you, that a greater thing than the temple is here. ⁷ But if you had known what is meant by this, ‘I will to have mercy and not sacrifice,’ You would not have sentenced the crimeless.