And it came to pass on the second-first sabbath, as Jesus passed through the cornfields, His disciples being hungry plucked the ears of corn and ate, rubbing them in their hands. But certain of the Pharisees said to them: 'Why do you do that which is not lawful on the sabbaths?' And answering them, He said: 'Have you not read even this, what David did when he himself was hungry, and they who were with him: how he entered into the house of God, and took the loaves of proposition, and ate, and gave to those who were with him, which it was not lawful for him to eat, save only for the priests?' And He said to them: 'The Son of Man is Lord also of the sabbath.'
'Or have you not read in the law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are without blame? But I say to you, that there is here one greater than the temple. The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.'