Plucking Grain on the Sabbath

23 And it happened that he was going through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to make their way while[a] plucking off the heads of grain. 24 And the Pharisees began to say[b] 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—

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 2:23 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“picking”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Mark 2:24 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)