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The Pharisees Object To Plucking Grain On The Sabbath. I Am Lord of The Sabbath

And it came about on a Sabbath that He was proceeding through grainfields. And His disciples were plucking[a] and eating the heads [of grain], rubbing them in their hands. And some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you[b] doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” And having responded to them, Jesus said, “Did you not even read [in 1 Sam 21:1-6] this which David did when he was hungry, he and the ones being with him?—

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 6:1 The Law permitted this, Deut 23:25.
  2. Luke 6:2 This is plural.

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