The Jewish teachers prided themselves on their knowledge of the Scriptures, and in the Saviour's answer there was an implied rebuke for their ignorance of the Sacred Writings. "Have ye not read so much as this," He said, "what David did, when himself was an hungered, and they which were with him; how he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, . . . which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?" "And He said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath." "Have ye not read in the law, how that on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless? But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple." "The Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath." Luke 6:3, 4; Mark 2:27, 28; Matt. 12:5, 6.

Jødefolkets lærere var stolte over deres kendskab til Skrifterne, og i Frelserens svar fandtes der en underforstået bebrejdelse for deres uvidenhed om de hellige Skrifter. Han sagde: "Har I da ikke læst, hvad David gjorde, da han og hans ledsagere blev sultne, hvordan han gik ind i Guds hus og tog skuebrødene og spiste, ..... skønt ingen uden præsterne har lov at spise dem?" "Og han sagde til dem: 'Sabbaten er blevet til for menneskets skyld, og ikke mennesket for sabbattens skyld.' 'Har I ikke læst i loven, at på sabbatterne vanhelliger præsterne sabbatten i helligdommen uden at pådrage sig skyld? Og jeg siger jer, at her er det, som er større end helligdommen." Så er da Menneskesønnen også herre over sabbatten." Luk. 6,3-4; Mark. 2,27-28; Matt. 12,5-6.