Luke 6:1-5 ▼

1 One Sabbath while Jesus was passing through fields of standing grain, it happened that His disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.

2 But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

3 Jesus replied to them, “Have you not even read [in the Scriptures] what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him—

4 how he went into the house of God, and took and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful [for anyone] to eat except the priests alone, and [how he also] gave it to the men who were with him?”

5 Jesus was saying to them, “The Son of Man (the Messiah) is Lord [even] of the Sabbath.”