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1 About that time Jesus passed on the Sabbath through the wheatfields; and His disciples became hungry, and began to gather ears of wheat and eat them. 2 But the Pharisees saw it and said to Him, "Look! your disciples are doing what the Law forbids them to do on the Sabbath." 3 "Have you never read," He replied, "what David did when he and his men were hungry? 4 how he entered the House of God and ate the Presented Loaves, which it was not lawful for him or his men to eat, nor for any except the priests? 5 And have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath without incurring guilt? 6 But I tell you that there is here that which is greater than the Temple. 7 And if you knew what this means, 'It is mercy I desire, not sacrifice', you would not have condemned those who are without guilt. 8 For the Son of Man is the Lord of the Sabbath." Matthew 12:1-8, Weymouth New Testament. Public domain.
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