3 He said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry –
4 how he entered the house of God and they ate the sacred bread, which was against the law for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests?
5 Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?
6 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 would not have condemned the innocent.
8 For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
9 Then Jesus left that place and entered their synagogue.