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Mark 2:23
And it came to pass that he went on the sabbath through the cornfields; and his disciples began to walk on, plucking the ears.
Mark 2:23 · Darby Bible
Mark 2:23 in other translations
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.
One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain as they walked along.
He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.
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In context
20 But days will come when the bridegroom shall have been taken away from them, and then shall they fast in that day.
21 No one sews a patch of new cloth on an old garment: otherwise its new filling-up takes from the old [stuff], and there is a worse rent.
22 And no one puts new wine into old skins; otherwise the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine is to be put into new skins.
23 And it came to pass that he went on the sabbath through the cornfields; and his disciples began to walk on, plucking the ears.
24 And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath what is not lawful?
25 And he said to them, Have ye never read what David did when he had need and hungered, he and those with him,
26 how he entered into the house of God, in [the section of] Abiathar [the] high priest, and ate the shew-bread, which it is not lawful unless for the priests to eat, and gave even to those that were with him?
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