Mark 2:24

24 And the Pharisees began to say to him, "Behold, why are they doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath?"

Mark 2:24 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 2:24

And the Pharisees said unto him
To Christ, the same they said to his disciples, ( Luke 6:2 ) .

Behold, why do they on the sabbath day, that which is not lawful?
see how they pluck the ears of corn and rub them, and eat things, which by the law, especially by the traditions of the elders, were not lawful to be done on the sabbath day; (See Gill on Matthew 12:2).

Mark 2:24 In-Context

22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. {Otherwise} the wine will burst the wineskins and the wine is destroyed and the wineskins [too]. But new wine [is put] into new wineskins."

23 And it happened that he was going through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to make [their] way [while] plucking off the heads of grain.

24 And the Pharisees began to say to him, "Behold, why are they doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath?"

25 And he said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he had need and he and those [who were] with him were hungry--

26 how he entered into the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the bread of the presentation, which it is not permitted to eat (except the priests) and also gave [it] to those who were with him?"

Footnotes

• [a]. The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")