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Jesus replied, ‘You have certainly read about what David did one day. He and the men who were with him were hungry. He went into the temple. He took the special bread that was there. It is against God's Law for anyone except the priests to eat that bread. But David ate some of it. He gave some of the bread to his men to eat as well.’

Then Jesus said to them, ‘The Son of Man has authority over the Law about the day of rest.’[a]

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  1. 6:5 We can read this report about David in 1 Samuel 21.