Matthew 12:1-8 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the heads of grain, and to eat.

RKJNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the heads of grain, and to eat. ² But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, Behold, your disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. ³ But he said to them, Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, he and those who were with him; ⁴ How he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? ⁵ Or have you not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless? ⁶ But I say to you, That in this place is one greater than the temple. ⁷ But if you had known what this means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless. ⁸ For the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath.