New American Bible, Revised Edition

Mark 2:20-28 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

20. But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.

21. No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak. If he does, its fullness pulls away, the new from the old, and the tear gets worse.

22. Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins.”

23. As he was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain.

24. At this the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”

25. He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry?

26. How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the bread of offering that only the priests could lawfully eat, and shared it with his companions?”

27. Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.

28. That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”