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The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"
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Man-Made Rules, Not God's Law
Commentators stress that the disciples were not breaking God's actual law, as plucking grain to eat was permitted. The Pharisees' accusation was based on their own strict, human traditions which defined plucking as 'reaping' and rubbing the grains as 'threshing'—forms of work they had forbidden on the Sabbath.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
And it came to pass.—See Notes on Matthew 12:1-8.
As they went . . .—More literally, they began to mak…
Baptist
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 …
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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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Pharisees said to him To Christ, the same they said to his disciples, (Luke 6:2) .
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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…
