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Graphic-novel illustration of the designed Jesus answering Pharisees while Peter and Andrew pluck grain in a ripe Sabbath field.
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Mark 2:23-28

Lord of the Sabbath

Authority That Restores · Mark 2

Story guide: Hungry disciples move through the grain, and Jesus restores the Sabbath to its purpose as a gift for people.

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23And it happened that on the Sabbath he was passing through the grainfields, and his disciples began to make their way, plucking the heads of grain.

24And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath?”

25And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and was hungry, he and those with him?”

26how he entered into the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and also gave some to those who were with him?

27And he was saying to them, “The Sabbath came into being for man, and not man for the Sabbath.”

28So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.

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