Matthew 12:1-8

Revised Geneva Translation

12 At that time, Jesus went through the corn on a Sabbath day. And His disciples were hungry and began to pluck the ears of corn and eat.

² And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Behold, Your disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath!”

³ But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry?

⁴ “How he went into the house of God, and ate the showbread (which 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 in the Law how that, on the Sabbath days, the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are blameless?

⁶ “But I say to you that here is One greater than the Temple.

⁷ “Therefore, if you knew what this meant, ‘I will have mercy and not sacrifice’, you would not have condemned the innocents.

⁸ “For the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.”