Thy disciples do (ο μαθητα σου ποιουσιν). These critics are now watching a chance and they jump at this violation of their Pharisa…

Upon the sabbath day. The Pharisees, doubtless desirous of finding fault with Christ, said that, in plucking the grain on the sabbath …

When the Pharisees saw it — In the position in which the narrative stands in the other two Gospels, the Pharisees would appear as …

They were probably on their way to the synagogue. They were allowed by law to take ears of grain as they passed along, but the Pharisees' objection…

Glossa Ordinaria: After relating the preaching along with the miracles of one year before John's inquiry, He moves on to those…

The Pharisees’ charge that the disciples were breaking the law was based, not on their picking grain in someone else’s field, but on the fact that …

But when the Pharisees saw it Who went along with him, or followed him, being employed to make observation on his words a…

Being in the corn-fields, the disciples began to pluck the ears of corn; the law of God allowed it (Deuteronomy 23:25). This was slende…