Event 13 – Another Sabbath Controversy

Matthew 12:1-8, Mark 2:23-28, Luke 6:1-5

^K One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they ^M were hungry and began ^k to pick some heads of ^L grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels. ^M When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”

^K He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions. ^M Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priest in the temple desecrate the innocent? I tell you that one greater than the temple is here. If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.”

^K Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”