Daily Discovery Bible Study

1 Around that time Jesus was walking through fields of grain on the Sabbath day. His disciples were hungry so they started to pick ears of grain and eat them.2 When the Pharisees saw this they said to Jesus, “Look at your disciples—they're doing what isn't allowed on the Sabbath!”

3 But Jesus told them, “Haven't you read what David did when he and his men were hungry?4 He went into the house of God, and he and his men ate the sacred bread that they weren't allowed to eat since it's only for the priests.5 Haven't you read in the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath but are not considered guilty?6 However, I tell you that someone is here who is greater than the Temple!7 If you'd known the meaning of this Scripture, ‘I want mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn't have condemned an innocent man.8 For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

Matthew 12: 1-8