“He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.”
Mark 2:23 (WEB)
Context Reading
21No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made. 22No one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.” 23He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain. 24The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?” 25He said to them,“Did you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry — he, and those who were with him?