Matthew 12:1-3

Contemporary English Version

A Question about the Sabbath

(Mark 2.23-28; Luke 6.1-5)

12 ^(A) One Sabbath, Jesus and his disciples were walking through some wheat fields.^[a] His disciples were hungry and began picking and eating grains of wheat. ² Some Pharisees noticed this and said to Jesus, “Why are your disciples picking grain on the Sabbath? They are not supposed to do this!”

^3 (B) Jesus answered:

You surely must have read what David did when he and his followers were hungry.