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1On a sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands.Plucking Grain on the Sabbath Lk.6.1-5 (Galilee) | Mt.12.1-8 | Mk.2.23-28
2But some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath?"  
3And Jesus answered, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: 
4how he entered the house of God, and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?" 
5And he said to them, "The Son of man is lord of the sabbath."