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1 At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on a Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pick heads of wheat and eat them. 2 But when the Pharisees saw this they said to him, |Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath.| 3 He said to them, |Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry-- 4 how he entered the house of God and they ate the sacred bread, which was against the law for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests? 5 Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty? 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. 7 If you had known what this means: 'I want mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent. 8 For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.| Matthew 12:1-8, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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