Matthew 12:1-8 At that time Jesus walked through the wheat fields one Sabbath Day; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck some ears of wheat and to eat them.

MNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ At that time Jesus walked through the wheat fields one Sabbath Day; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck some ears of wheat and to eat them. ² But the Pharisees, when they perceived it, said to him. "Look! Your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!" ³ "Have you not read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was hungry, and his men, too? ⁴ "How he went into the House of God, and there they ate the loaves of the Presence, which neither he nor his men were permitted to eat, but the priests only? ⁵ "Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless? ⁶ "But I tell you that One is here who is greater than the temple. ⁷ "And if you knew what this means, "It is mercy I desire, not sacrifice, ⁸ "you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath."