Matthew 12:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Plucking Grain on the Sabbath

12 At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. ² When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, ‘Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.’ ³ He said to them, ‘Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?