Mat 12:1-8 | NASB2020 | 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 .

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

Matthew 12:1-8

Sabbath Questions

1 ^{▼▼Or On that occasion
,} ^bAt that 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 Now when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing 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 ^{▼▼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}violate the Sabbath, and yet 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, ^{▼▼Lit and not}rather than sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned ^{▼▼Plural in the Gr}the innocent.

Lord of the Sabbath

8 For ⁿthe Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”