“And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.”
One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands and eating the kernels — the grainfield Sabbath controversy opens chapter 6's sequence of controversies and teachings. Rubbing the heads of grain in their hands is Luke's detail: the rubbing separates the grain from the husk — the action that could be categorized as threshing, one of the Sabbath's prohibited labors.
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