Plucking Grain on the Sabbath

Now it happened that on a Sabbath he went through the grain fields, and his disciples were picking and eating the heads of grain, rubbing them[a] in their[b] hands. But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath? And Jesus answered and[c] said to them, “Have you not read this, what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry—

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 6:1 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Luke 6:1 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  3. Luke 6:3 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb