Mark 2:23-28 ▼

23 And it came to pass—He is going along on the Sabbaths through the grainfields—and His disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,

24 and the Pharisees said to Him, “Behold, why do they do on the Sabbaths that which is not lawful?”

25 And He said to them, “Did you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him?

26 How he went into the house of God, in [the days of] Abiathar the chief priest, and ate the Bread of the Presentation, which it is not lawful to eat, except to the priests, and he also gave to those who were with him?”

27 And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath,

28 so that the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.”