012:001 About that time Jesus passed on the Sabbath through the wheatfields;
and His disciples became hungry, and began to gather ears
of wheat and eat them.
012:002 But the Pharisees saw it and said to Him, "Look! your disciples
are doing what the Law forbids them to do on the Sabbath."
012:003 "Have you never read," He replied, "what David did when he and
his men were hungry?
012:004 how he entered the House of God and ate the Presented Loaves,
which it was not lawful for him or his men to eat, nor for any
except the priests?
012:005 And have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests
in the Temple break the Sabbath without incurring guilt?
012:006 But I tell you that there is here that which is greater
than the Temple.
012:007 And if you knew what this means, `It is mercy I desire,
not sacrifice', you would not have condemned those who
are without guilt.