And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went , to pluck the ears of corn.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Pharisees said unto him,.... To Christ, the same they said to his disciples, Luk 6:2.
Behold, why do they on the sabbath day, that which is not lawful? see how they pluck the ears of corn…
See Mat 12:1-8. The cornfields - The fields sown with wheat or barley. The word “corn,” in the Bible, refers only to grain of that kind, and never to “maize” or “Indian corn.” To pluck the ears of…
Adam Clarke
Went through the corn fields - See on Mat 12:1 (note).
Christ had been put to justify himself in conversing with publicans and sinners: here he is put to justify his disciples; and in what they do according to his will he will justify them, and bear them…
Cambridge Bible
The Disciples pluck the Ears of Corn
23. on the sabbath day St Luke tells us that this was a "second first Sabbath" i. e. either (1) the first Sabbath after the second day of unleavened bread; or (2)…