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At about that time Jesus was walking through some grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, so they began breaking off some heads of grain and eating them.
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But some Pharisees saw them do it and protested, “Look, your disciples are breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath.”
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Jesus said to them, “Haven’t you read in the Scriptures what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
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He went into the house of God, and he and his companions broke the law by eating the sacred loaves of bread that only the priests are allowed to eat.
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And haven’t you read in the law of Moses that the priests on duty in the Temple may work on the Sabbath?
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I tell you, there is one here who is even greater than the Temple!