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How he entered the sanctuary and ate fresh bread off the altar, bread that no one but priests were allowed to eat? He also handed it out to his companions."
2
Some Pharisees said, "Why are you doing that, breaking a Sabbath rule?"
3
But Jesus stood up for them. "Have you never read what David and those with him did when they were hungry?
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How he entered the sanctuary and ate fresh bread off the altar, bread that no one but priests were allowed to eat? He also handed it out to his companions."
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Then he said, "The Son of Man is no slave to the Sabbath; he's in charge."
6
On another Sabbath he went to the meeting place and taught. There was a man there with a crippled right hand.
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