Plucking Grain on the Sabbath

12 At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. And his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck off heads of grain and eat them.[a] But when[b] the Pharisees saw it,[c] they said to him, “Behold, your disciples are doing what it is not permitted to do on the Sabbath!” So he said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those with him,

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 12:1 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Matthew 12:2 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
  3. Matthew 12:2 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation