1 At that time Jesus went through the wheat fields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry so they were picking heads of wheat and eating them.
2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are breaking the Sabbath law."
3 But he said to them, "Haven’t you read what David did when he and those with him were hungry?
4 He went into God’s house and broke the law by eating the bread of the presence, which only the priests were allowed to eat.
5 Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple treat the Sabbath as any other day and are still innocent?
6 But I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.
7 If you had known what this means, I want mercy and not sacrifice, you wouldn’t have condemned the innocent.