Matthew 12:2-4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.” 3 He said to them,[a] “Have you not read what David(A) did when he and his companions were hungry, 4 how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering,(B) which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat?
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- 12:3–4 See 1 Sm 21:2–7. In the Marcan parallel (Mk 2:25–26) the high priest is called Abiathar, although in 1 Samuel this action is attributed to Ahimelech. The Old Testament story is not about a violation of the sabbath rest; its pertinence to this dispute is that a violation of the law was permissible because of David’s men being without food.
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