Matthew 12:5

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Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

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  • Num 28:9-9 : 9 Weekly Offerings“‘On the Sabbath day, you must offer two unblemished lambs a year old, and two-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour as a grain offering, mixed with olive oil, along with its drink offering. 10 This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
  • John 7:22-23 : 22 However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision(not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath. 23 But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?
  • Ezek 24:21 : 21 Say to the house of Israel,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary– the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion. Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die by the sword.

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    1Lord 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.

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

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

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  • Mark 2:23-28
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    24So the Pharisees said to him,“Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

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

    26how he entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the sacred bread, which is against the law for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to his companions?”

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  • Luke 6:1-5
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    2But some of the Pharisees said,“Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

    3Jesus answered them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–

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  • Matt 12:6-12
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    6I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.

    7If you had known what this means:‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

    8For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

    9Then Jesus left that place and entered their synagogue.

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