“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 going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain — the Sabbath grainfield controversy is the chapter's fourth and final conflict, shifting the topic from Jesus' associations and practices to his disciples' behavior. Picking heads of grain while walking through a field was explicitly permitted by Torah (Deuteronomy 23:25) — it was not stealing, and no one objects on that ground. The Pharisees' objection is about the Sabbath: picking grain involves a form of work (harvesting) that is prohibited. The disciples' action was not a deliberate provocation but an ordinary act of hunger — and it triggers the chapter's most consequential controversy.
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