Luke 6:1-5

Plucking Grain on the Sabbath

1 Now it happened that on a Sabbath he went through the grain fields, and his disciples were picking and eating the heads of grain, rubbing [them] in [their] hands.

2 But some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath?

3 And Jesus answered [and] said to them, "Have you not read this, what David did when he and those [who were] with him were hungry--

4 how he entered into the house of God and took the bread of the presentation, which it is not permitted to eat (except the priests alone), [and] ate [it] and gave [it] to those with him?"

5 And he said to them, "The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

Footnotes

• [a] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [b] *Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
• [c] *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("answered") has been translated as a finite verb
• [d] *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("took") has been translated as a finite verb
• [e] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [f] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation