Mark 2:24

Plucking Grain On The Sabbath

²³ Jesus happened to be going through the grain fields on a Sabbath. As they made their way, his disciples began picking the heads of grain. ²⁴ The Pharisees asked him, "Look! Why are they doing what is not lawful on Sabbath days?" ²⁵ He asked them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?

Law of Moses

On the Sabbath

Sabbath Day

Jesus

Mark

Moses

Pharisees

Exodus 20:10

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You are not to do any work neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your livestock, nor any foreigner who lives among you

Exodus 31:15

Work may be done for six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does work on the Sabbath is certainly to die.

Exodus 35:2-3

For six days work is to be done, but on the seventh day you are to have a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest in dedication to the LORD. Anyone who does work on that day is to be executed.

Numbers 15:32-36

As it was when the Israelis were in the wilderness, they found a man who was gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

Nehemiah 13:15-22

At that time I saw in Judah some who were treading wine presses on the Sabbath, bringing in sacks of grain, loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads. They brought them into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I rebuked them on the day on which they were selling food.

Isaiah 56:2

Blessed is the one who does this, and the person that holds it fast, who observes the Sabbath without profaning it, and restrains his hands from practicing any evil.

Isaiah 56:4

For this is what the LORD says: "To the eunuchs who observe my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me, and who hold fast my covenant

Isaiah 56:6

"Also, the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, and to bless the LORD'S name, observing the Sabbath without profaning it, and who hold fast my covenant

Isaiah 58:13

"If you keep your feet from trampling the Sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD's holy day honorable; and if you honor it by not going your own ways and seeking your own pleasure or speaking merely idle words,

Jeremiah 17:20-27

Say to them, "Kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the residents of Jerusalem entering these gates, hear this message from the LORD.

Matthew 7:3-5

"Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

Matthew 12:2

When the Pharisees saw this, they told him, "Look! Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!"

Matthew 15:2-3

"Why do your disciples disregard the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands when they eat."

Matthew 23:23-24

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your mint, dill, and cummin, but have neglected the more important matters of the Law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. These are the things you should have practiced, without neglecting the others.

Mark 2:7

"Why does this man talk this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Mark 2:16

When the scribes and the Pharisees saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

Hebrews 12:3

Think about the one who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you may not become tired and give up.