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Gospel for Saturday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time I

Luke 6:1-5

Summary: Jesus defends his disciples' actions on the Sabbath by recalling David's example and declares that the Son of Man has authority over the Sabbath, challenging the Pharisees' interpretation of the law.

Gospel Acclamation: I am the way and the truth and the life, says the Lord; no one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6)

The Lord of the Sabbath

While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. Some Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”

Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you not read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry? How he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering, which only the priests could lawfully eat, ate of it, and shared it with his companions?”

Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”

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