إنجيل القدّيس متّى .10.5-1:18
في تِلْكَ السَّاعَة، دَنَا التَّلامِيذُ مِنْ يَسُوعَ وقَالُوا: مَنْ هُوَ الأَعْظَمُ في مَلَكُوتِ السَّمَاوَات؟
فَدَعَا يَسُوعُ طِفْلاً، وأَقَامَهُ في وَسَطِهِم
وقَال: أَلحَقَّ أَقُولُ لَكُم: إِنْ لَمْ تَعُودُوا فَتَصِيرُوا مِثْلَ الأَطْفَال، لَنْ تَدْخُلُوا مَلَكُوتَ السَّمَاوَات
فَمَنْ وَاضَعَ نَفْسَهُ مِثْلَ هذَا الطِّفْلِ هُوَ الأَعْظَمُ في مَلَكُوتِ السَّمَاوَات
ومَنْ قَبِلَ بِٱسْمِي طِفْلاً وَاحِدًا مِثْلَ هذَا فَقَدْ قَبِلَني
أُنْظُرُوا، لا تَحْتَقِرُوا أَحَدًا مِنْ هؤُلاءِ الصِّغَار، فَإِنِّي أَقُولُ لَكُم: إِنَّ مَلائِكتَهُم في السَّمَاوَاتِ يُشَاهِدُونَ كُلَّ حِينٍ وَجْهَ أَبِي الَّذي في السَّمَاوَات
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 6:1-5.
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.”