Have you never read, etc. See Barnes on Matthew 12:3.

And it came to pass.—See Notes on Matthew 12:1-8.

As they went . . .—More literally, they began to mak…

He has made it no longer a day of bondage, but a day of blessed rest and holy service for God. Works of necessity, works of piety, and works of mer…

Pseudo-Chrysostom: The disciples of Christ, freed from the symbol and united to the truth, do not keep the symbolic fea…

Jesus met the accusation of the Pharisees with a counterquestion about the time when David and his companions were hungry and ate the consecrated b…

And he said unto them
By way of answer to their question, and which was a full one, and enough to silence them:

The sabbath is a sacred and Divine institution; a privilege and benefit, not a task and drudgery. God never designed it to be a burden to us, there…