Mark 2:23

Question of the Sabbath

23 ¹And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while ²picking the heads of grain.

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Mark 2:23 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 2:23

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

that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day, and his
disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn,
and to rub them, and get the grain out of them, and eat them; (See Gill on Matthew 12:1).

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Mark 2:23 In-Context

21 "No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.

22 "No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins."

23 And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain.

24 The Pharisees were saying to Him, "Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?"

25 And He said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry;

Cross References 2

1. Mark 2:23-28: {Matthew 12:1-8; Luke 6:1-5}
2. Deuteronomy 23:25

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Question of the Sabbath

Mark 2:23 Meaning and Commentary

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