0291003 Disciples pick grain on the Sabbath – Matthew 12:1-8, Mark 2:23-28, Luke 6:1-5, A.D. 27 Towns in Galilee
And now it happened at that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day going through the corn and grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began as they went, to pluck the ears and heads of grain and to eat, rubbing them in their hands. But some of the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him and to them, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath. Why do they do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”
And Jesus answering, said to them, “Did you and have you not read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry—he, and those who were with him? How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and took and ate the showbread, and gave also to those who were with him which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, except for the priests alone? Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless? But I say to you that one greater than the temple is here. And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the blameless. And he said to them, “Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath. The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.”
