Luke 6:1 Cross References - MNT

¹ It happened that on a Sabbath he was going through the wheat-fields. His disciples were picking the ears and eating the wheat, rubbing it out with their hands.

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."

²³ One Sabbath he was walking along through the wheat-fields, and his disciples, as they began to make their way across, were pulling the heads of wheat. ²⁴ "Look," said the Pharisees to him, "Why are they doing on the Sabbath Day what is against the law?" ²⁵ He answered them. "Have you never read what David did when he was needy and hungry, he and his men? ²⁶ How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which none but priests may eat, and gave some to his men? ²⁷ "The Sabbath," he told them, "was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath; ²⁸ so the Son of man is Master even of the Sabbath."