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Through the cornfields (δια των σποριμων). See on Mt 12:1. So Matt. and Lu 6:1. But Mark uses παραπορευεσθα, to go along beside, u…

The corn fields. The fields sown with grain, wheat, or barley. The word corn, in the Bible, refers only to grain of that kind, an…

And it came to pass.—See Notes on Matthew 12:1-8.
As they went . . .—More literally, they began to mak…

They had offended the Pharisees by not fasting, and now they were offending them again in a similar way, though with reference to a different matte…

Pseudo-Chrysostom: The disciples of Christ, freed from the symbol and united to the truth, do not keep the symbolic fea…

The main point at i ue here was not the act of harvesting the heads of grain in fields that did not belong to them. Such activity as Jesus and his …

And it came to pa
The Vulgate Latin adds, "again"; and so Beza says it was read in one of his copies:

The sabbath is a sacred and Divine institution; a privilege and benefit, not a task and drudgery. God never designed it to be a burden to us, there…
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A.T. Robertson
A.T.Robertson