Matthew 12:1-14 At that time Jesus walked one sabbath through the wheat fields, and His disciples became hungry, and began to pull the heads of wheat and eat them.

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ At that time Jesus walked one sabbath through the wheat fields, and His disciples became hungry, and began to pull the heads of wheat and eat them. ² And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, "Just look! Your disciples are doing something that it is against the law to do on the sabbath!" ³ But He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he and his soldiers became hungry? ⁴ How he went into the house of God, and they ate the sacred loaves, which it was against the law for him or his soldiers to eat, or for anyone except the priests? ⁵ Or, did you never read in the law that the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and yet are not guilty? ⁶ But I tell you, there is something greater than the temple here! ⁷ If you only knew what that saying means, 'It is mercy and not sacrifice that I want,' you would not have condemned men who are not guilty. ⁸ For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath." ⁹ And on leaving there He went into their synagogue. ¹⁰ Now there was a man there with one hand withered. And, to get a charge against Him, they asked Him, "Is it right to cure people on the sabbath?" ¹¹ But He said to them, "What man is there among you, if he has only one sheep and it falls into a ditch on the sabbath, will not lay hold on it and lift it out? ¹² And how much more a man is worth than a sheep! So it is right to do good on the sabbath." ¹³ Then He said to the man, "Hold out your hand." And he held it out, and it was cured so that it became like the other. ¹⁴ But the Pharisees went out and held a consultation against Him, to put Him to death.