12 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples got hungry and started to pluck heads of grain and to eat.+ 2 At seeing this, the Pharisees said to him: “Look! Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”+ 3 He said to them: “Have you not read what David did when he and the men with him were hungry?+ 4 How he entered into the house of God and they ate the loaves of presentation,+ something that it was not lawful for him or those with him to eat, but for the priests only?+ 5 Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbaths the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and continue guiltless?+ 6 But I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.+ 7 However, if you had understood what this means, ‘I want mercy+ and not sacrifice,’+ you would not have condemned the guiltless ones. 8 For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.”+

23 Now as he was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, his disciples started to pluck the heads of grain as they went.+ 24 So the Pharisees said to him: “Look here! Why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” 25 But he said to them: “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and the men with him were hungry?+ 26 How, in the account about A·biʹa·thar+ the chief priest, he entered into the house of God and ate the loaves of presentation, which it is not lawful for anybody to eat except the priests,+ and he also gave some to the men who were with him?” 27 Then he said to them: “The Sabbath came into existence for the sake of man,+ and not man for the sake of the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”+