'Pick' in the Bible
Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and walk’?
“I tell you: get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”
Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.
When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?" They replied, "Twelve."
“When I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?” And they *said to Him, “Seven.”
Then Jesus called the crowd to himself along with his disciples and told them, "If anyone wants to follow me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross, and follow me continuously,
and the one who is in the field must not turn back to pick up his cloak.
they will pick up snakes; if they should drink anything deadly, it will never harm them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will get well.”