Mat 12:1-8 | NASB1995 | STEP | At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath , and His disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat .

a Matt 12:1-8: Mark 2:23-28; Luke 6:1-5

Matthew 12:1-8

1 ^aAt that ^{▼▼ Or occasion}time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to ^cpick the heads of grain and eat. 2 But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples do what ^dis not lawful to do on a Sabbath.” 3 But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions, 4 how he entered the house of God, and ^ethey ate the ^{▼▼ Or showbread; lit loaves of presentation}consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone? 5 “Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple ^{▼▼ Or profane}break the Sabbath and are innocent? 6 “But I say to you that something ^hgreater than the temple is here. 7 “But if you had known what this ^{▼▼ Lit is}means, ‘ ^jI desire ^{▼▼ Or mercy} compassion, and not a sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

Lord of the Sabbath

8 “For ^lthe Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”