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1 AT that time Jesus walked through corn-fields on a sabbath-day; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. 2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, Behold, thy disciples do a thing that it is not lawful to do on the sabbath. 3 And he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they who were with him? 4 how they went into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of shew-bread, of which it was not lawful for him or those who were with him to eat, but for the priests alone? 5 Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are not culpable? 6 Now I tell you, That one greater than the temple is here. 7 But if ye had known what that meant, I desire mercy and not sacrifice; ye would not have condemned the innocent. Matthew 12:1-7, Haweis New Testament. Public domain.
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