Luke 6:4
How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone? How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?
This is part of the Sabbath controversy when Jesus and His disciples passed through a grainfield on the Sabbath and ate by plucking ears of grain, an account connected with the healing of a withered hand. It records that David went into the house of God and took and ate the showbread and gave also to those with him, though it was not lawful to eat except for the priests alone. The disciples eating grain as they passed through the field was in keeping with God's provision allowing a hungry person to take food from a neighbor's field to satisfy hunger.
Jesus quoted and used David's example to defend His disciples against the charge of breaking the Sabbath by plucking and eating grain, and to rebuke the teachers and repel the scribes and Pharisees for ignorance of Scripture. He denied that the disciples had broken the Sabbath and declared them innocent and guiltless. If it was right for David to satisfy hunger with bread set apart to holy use, it was right for the disciples to supply their need and satisfy hunger on the sacred hours of the Sabbath, and what they did was in harmony with the Sabbath commandment. The service of God comes first and what is necessary for God's work of redeeming man is in accord with the Sabbath law. Christ kept the Sabbath according to God's law rather than conforming to the rabbis' requirements, thereby rejecting false teachings that had made Sabbath observance reflect human selfishness and arbitrariness instead of God's character.
Jesus Christ here is the Lord who made the Sabbath and is Lord of the Sabbath, God in the flesh in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells, the greatest Teacher the world ever knew who gave unmistakable evidence that He was sent of God. As Lord of the Sabbath, with unique dignity He covered the disciples with the shield of His own divine prerogatives and authority received from the Father to act out the principles of heaven, acquitting them of blame by the very statutes they were accused of breaking. The scribes and Pharisees and Jewish rulers took upon themselves work prompted by the enemy and charged the Lord with breaking and transgressing the Sabbath, though wide awake to condemn Him.
Their charge showed the foolishness, weakness and fallibility of human judgment and complete spiritual blindness, as if they had put out their own eyes. The same blindness is seen in those who want to carry the work in America in their own way and thereby lose their bearings.