Mark 2:19-28 ▼

19 And Jesus said to them: Can the sons of the bride-chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can not fast.

20 But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then they will fast in those days.

21 No one sews a patch of new cloth on an old garment; if so, the new piece which fills it up, takes from the old, and a worse rent is made.

22 And no one puts new wine into old bottles; if so, the new wine bursts the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles are destroyed. But new wine must be put into new bottles.

23 And it came to pass, that he was going on the sabbath day through the fields of grain: and his disciples began, as they went, to pull the ears of grain.

24 And the Pharisees said to him: See, why are they doing on the sabbath-day what is not lawful?

25 And he said to them: Did you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those who were with him?

26 How he entered the house of God in the days of Abiathar the chief priest, and ate the loaves of the presence, which, it is not lawful, except for the priests, to eat, and gave to those also who were with him?

27 And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.

28 Therefore, the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.