12 [ref]At that time, Yeshua was going through some fields of grain on a rest day, and his apprentices were hungry and began to pluck some heads of grain and crunch them. 2 But some from the Pharisees party saw them and said, “Look, your followers are harvesting when it’s not permitted to harvest on a rest day.”

3 [ref]“Haven’t you read about what David did when him and his fighters were hungry?” Yeshua responded. 4 [ref]He went into God’s tent and they ate the Bread of the Presence which none of them were allowed to eat—only the priests. 5 [ref]Or haven’t you understood that when the priests work in the temple on the rest day, it’s against the law and yet they’re innocent? 6 But I’m telling you that someone greater than the temple is here. 7 [ref]But you all should have known that what I want is mercy over sacrifices—you shouldn’t have convicted the innocent 8 because humanity’s child is the master over the rest day.