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It happened, that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.
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Not Stealing, But Gleaning
Commentators clarify that the disciples' actions were not theft. The Law of Moses (Deuteronomy 23:25) explicitly permitted hungry travelers to pluck grain by hand from a field. The issue the Pharisees had was not with the act itself, but with the fact that it was done on the Sabbath.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
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…
19th Century
Anglican
And it came to pass.—See Notes on Matthew 12:1-8.
As they went . . .—More literally, they began to mak…
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Baptist
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…
The main point at issue 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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And it came to pass The Vulgate Latin adds, "again"; and so Beza says it was read in one of his copies:
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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…
