Mark 2:23-28
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23aAnd it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while bpicking the heads of grain. 24And the Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, awhy are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” 25And He *said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry; 26how he entered the house of God around the time of aAbiathar the high priest, and ate the 1consecrated bread, which bis not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?” 27And Jesus was saying to them, “aThe Sabbath 1was made 2for man, and bnot man 3for the Sabbath. 28“Consequently the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”