Mark 2:24

Plucking Grain On The Sabbath

²³ Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath day. While they walked his disciples took the heads of grain. ²⁴ The Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” ²⁵ He said: Do you not know of what David did when he needed food for himself and his companions?

Law of Moses

On the Sabbath

Sabbath Day

Jesus

Mark

Moses

Pharisees

Exodus 20:10

The seventh day is a Sabbath dedicated to Jehovah your God. Do not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.

Exodus 31:15

Work may be done for six days. The seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest. It is holy to Jehovah. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day will definitely be put to death.

Exodus 35:2-3

You may work for six days. The seventh day is a holy day of worship (a Sabbath). It is a day when you do not work. It is dedicated to Jehovah. Whoever does any work on this day should be put to death.

Numbers 15:32-36

One time, while the Israelites were still in the wilderness, a man was found gathering firewood on the Sabbath.

Nehemiah 13:15-22

In those days, I saw in Judah some who were crushing grapes on the Sabbath, and harvesting grain and putting it on Asses; as well as wine and grapes and figs and all sorts of goods that they took into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. I gave witness against them on the day when they were marketing food.

Isaiah 56:2

Blessed is the man who does this, the man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.

Isaiah 56:4

For Jehovah says: To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me. They hold fast to my covenant.

Isaiah 56:6

Foreigners have become allied with Jehovah, to serve Jehovah, to love the name of Jehovah, and to worship him. They keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and hold fast to my covenant.

Isaiah 58:13

If because of the Sabbath, you turn your foot from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and you call the Sabbath a delight and the holy of Jehovah honorable, and honor it, desisting from your ways, from seeking your own pleasure and speaking your own word,

Jeremiah 17:20-27

Say to them: Listen to the word of Jehovah, kings of Judah, and all Judah and all inhabitants of Jerusalem who come in through these gates:

Matthew 7:3-5

Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye? Do you not consider the beam in your own eye?

Matthew 12:2

The Pharisees saw it and said to him: Your disciples do that which it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.

Matthew 15:2-3

They questioned him: Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? They eat food with unwashed hands.

Matthew 23:23-24

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy and faith. You should do both and leave nothing undone.

Mark 2:7

Why does this man speak this way? He blasphemes for only God is the one who can forgive sins.

Mark 2:16

When the scribes of the Pharisees saw he was eating with the tax collectors and sinners they asked his disciples: Why does he take food and drink with such men?

Hebrews 12:3

Consider him who endured such contrary talk by sinners against him. You should not get tired and give up in your mind (heart).