And as He was going thro' the corn-fields on the sabbath-day, his disciples began as they went along to pluck the ears of corn.

And it came to pass on the second-sabbath after the first, that as He was passing through the corn-fields, his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and rubbed them in their hands and ate them.

And there were in the same country shepherds out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night: and lo,

And he went and let himself to one of the people of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Do not ye say, it is yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Behold, lift up your eyes, and see the fields, they are already white for harvest.

Behold the hire of the laborers, that reaped your fields, of which they are defrauded by you, crieth out against you: and the complaints of the reapers are come into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

and he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I do? for I have not room to lay up my corn.

But Jacob hearing that there was corn in Egypt, sent out our fathers first:

And when they were satisfied with food, they lightened the ship and cast out the corn into the sea.

or saith not the law the same also? for it is written in the law of Moses, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." Now doth God take care for oxen,

And as to what thou sowest, thou sowest not the very body that shall be produced, but a bare grain, it may be, of wheat, or any other corn:

For the scripture saith, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn:" and, "The workman is worthy of his hire."

About this time as Jesus passed through the cornfields on the sabbath-day, his disciples being hungry began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat them.

Now when the blade shot forth, and produced the corn, then the tares also appeared.

But he said, No: least in plucking up the tares ye root up the corn along with them.

For the earth produces fruit of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear: