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That which is not lawful. That is, that which they considered to be unlawful on the sabbath day. It was made lawful by Moses, wit…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
And it came to pass.—See Notes on Matthew 12:1-8.
As they went . . .—More literally, they began to mak…
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
According to some Rabbis, you might pick an ear of wheat on the Sabbath day, but if you rubbed it between your hands, they said that was a sort of …
Church Fathers
ChurchFathers
Pseudo-Chrysostom: The disciples of Christ, freed from the symbol and united to the truth, do not keep the symbolic fea…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
Expositor'sBible Commentary
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 …
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
Why do they on the Sabbath what is not lawful? The Pharisees did not blame the disciples of Christ for plucking ears of corn from…
John Gill
JohnGill
And the Pharisees said to him
To Christ, the same they said to his disciples, (Luke 6:2) .
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
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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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes