Mark 2:19-28 ▼

19 And Jesus said to them, “Are the sons of the bride-chamber able, while the bridegroom is with them, to fast? As long a time [as] they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast;

20 but days will come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they will fast—in those days.

21 And no one sews a patch of undressed cloth on an old garment, and if not—the new, filling it up, takes from the old and the split becomes worse;

22 and no one puts new wine into old skins, and if not—the new wine bursts the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine is to be put into new skins.”

23 And it came to pass—He is going along on the Sabbaths through the grainfields—and His disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,

24 and the Pharisees said to Him, “Behold, why do they do on the Sabbaths that which 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 with him?

26 How he went into the house of God, in [the days of] Abiathar the chief priest, and ate the Bread of the Presentation, which it is not lawful to eat, except to the priests, and he also gave to those who were with him?”

27 And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath,

28 so that the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.”