Matthew 12:5-8 New English Translation (NET)

5. Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

6. I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.

7. If you had known what this means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

8. For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

Matthew 12