25 “If you go into your neighbor’s field of standing grain, you may pluck the ripe ears with your hand, but you should not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.+

23 Now as he was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, his disciples started to pluck the heads of grain as they went.+ 24 So the Pharisees said to him: “Look here! Why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” 25 But he said to them: “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and the men with him were hungry?+ 26 How, in the account about A·biʹa·thar+ the chief priest, he entered into the house of God and ate the loaves of presentation,* which it is not lawful for anybody to eat except the priests,+ and he also gave some to the men who were with him?” 27 Then he said to them: “The Sabbath came into existence for the sake of man,+ and not man for the sake of the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”+

6 Now on a sabbath he was passing through grainfields, and his disciples were plucking and eating the heads of grain,+ rubbing them with their hands.+ 2 At this some of the Pharisees said: “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”+ 3 But in reply Jesus said to them: “Have you never read what David did when he and the men with him were hungry?+ 4 How he entered into the house of God and received the loaves of presentation* and ate and gave some to the men with him, which it is not lawful for anyone to eat but for the priests only?”+ 5 Then he said to them: “The Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.”+