Blended Gospels: Jesus and His Disciples Harvest Grain on the Sabbath

One Sabbath [Jesus] was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath."

And he said to them, "Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, 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 who were with him?"

"Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. And if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless."

And he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."

[Matthew 12:1-8; Mark 2:23-28; Luke 6:1-5]

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