NET Bible
"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?"
— Matthew 12:4, NET Bible
“How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?”
“how he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them that were with him, but only for the priests? ”
“how he entered into the house of God, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?”
“How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that were with him, but for the priests only?”
“How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?”
“How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?”
Lord of the Sabbath 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.
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.”
He said to them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–
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?
Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?
I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.
If you had known what this means:‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.