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Matthew 12:1-3
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Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath
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At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them.
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When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”
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He answered,
“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
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Matthew 12:1-3 In-Context
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At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them.
2
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”
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He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
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He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.
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Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?
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I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.
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If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’you would not have condemned the innocent.
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Deuteronomy 23:25
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ver 10;
Exodus 20:10
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Exodus 23:12
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Deuteronomy 5:14
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Luke 13:14
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Luke 14:3
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John 5:10
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John 7:23
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John 9:16
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1 Samuel 21:6
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