Matthew 12:2-8 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!"

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ 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."