Now it happened that he was passing through the cornfields on the sabbath, and as the disciples made their way through they began to pull the ears of corn.

(For the earth bears crops by itself, the blade first, the ear of corn next, and then the grain full in the ear.)

It is like a grain of mustard-seed ??less than any seed on earth when it is sown on earth;

Then he gave orders that they were to make all the people lie down in parties on the green grass;

then they dressed him in purple, put on his head a crown of thorns which they had plaited,