Matthew 12:1-8
Sabbath Questions
1 (A)At that (a)time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to (B)pick the heads of grain and eat.
2 But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples do what (C)is not lawful to do on a Sabbath.”
3 But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions,
4 how he entered the house of God, and (D)they ate the (b)consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone?
5 Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple (c)break the Sabbath and are innocent?
6 But I say to you that something (E)greater than the temple is here.
7 But if you had known what this (d)means, ‘(F)I desire (e)compassion, and not a sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
Lord of the Sabbath
Footnotes:
a.
Matthew 12:1: ['Or ', occasion]
b.
Matthew 12:4: ['Or ', showbread, '; lit ', loaves of presentation]
c.
Matthew 12:5: ['Or ', profane]
d.
Matthew 12:7: ['Lit ', is]
e.
Matthew 12:7: ['Or ', mercy]