Matthew 12:2-8

English Standard Version

² But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, ^(A)“Look, your disciples are doing ^(B)what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” ³ He said to them, ^(C)“Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: ⁴ how he entered the house of God and ate ^(D)the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? ⁵ Or have you not read ^(E)in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? ⁶ I tell you, ^(F)something greater than the temple is here. ⁷ And if you had known ^(G)what this means, ^(H)‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. ⁸ For ^(I)the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”