New English Translation

Matthew 12:1-4 New English Translation (NET)

1. At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on a Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pick heads of wheat and eat them.

2. But when the Pharisees saw this they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath.”

3. He said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry –

4. how he entered the house of God and they ate the sacred bread, which was against the law for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests?