Mark 2:24

Plucking Grain On The Sabbath

²³ And it happened that He went through the grainfields on the sabbath day. And as they walked His disciples began to pluck the heads of grain. ²⁴ And the Pharisees said to Him, Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the sabbath day? ²⁵ And He said to them, Have you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he, and those with him?

Law of Moses

On the Sabbath

Sabbath Day

Jesus

Mark

Moses

Pharisees

Exodus 20:10

But the seventh day is the Sabbath of Jehovah your God. You shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger within your gates.

Exodus 31:15

Six days may work be done, but on the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to Jehovah. Whoever does any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 35:2-3

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to Jehovah. Whoever does work in it shall be put to death.

Numbers 15:32-36

And while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.

Nehemiah 13:15-22

In those days I saw in Judah some treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading asses and also wine, grapes, and figs, and all kinds of burdens which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.

Isaiah 56:2

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it; keeping the sabbath, from defiling it; and keeping his hand from doing any evil.

Isaiah 56:4

For so says Jehovah to the eunuchs who keep My Sabbath, and choose things that please Me, and take hold of My covenant;

Isaiah 56:6

Also the sons of the stranger, who join themselves to Jehovah to serve Him, and to love the name of Jehovah, to be His servants, everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and takes hold of My covenant;

Isaiah 58:13

If you turn your foot because of the Sabbath, from doing what you please on My holy days, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of Jehovah, honorable; and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

Jeremiah 17:20-27

And say to them, Hear the Word of Jehovah, kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the people of Jerusalem who enter in by these gates!

Matthew 7:3-5

And why do you look on the splinter that is in your brother's eye, but do not consider the beam that is in your own eye?

Matthew 12:2

But when the Pharisees saw, they said to Him, Behold, your disciples do that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath day.

Matthew 15:2-3

Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

Matthew 23:23-24

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left undone the weightier matters of the Law, judgment, mercy, and faith. You ought to have done these and not to leave the other undone.

Mark 2:7

Why does this one speak such blasphemies? Who can forgive sins except God only?

Mark 2:16

And when the scribes and Pharisees saw Him eat with tax-collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, How is it that He eats and drinks with tax-collectors and sinners?

Hebrews 12:3

For consider Him who endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest you be weary and faint in your minds.