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One Sabbath while Jesus was passing through the fields of standing grain, it occurred that His disciples picked some of the spikes and ate [of the grain], rubbing it out in their hands.(A)

But some of the Pharisees asked them, Why are you doing what is not permitted to be done on the Sabbath days?(B)

And Jesus replied to them, saying, Have you never so much as read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him?—(C)

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