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One Sabbath not long after this, Jesus and his disciples were

walking through a field of grain in Galilee. The disciples were

hungry, and as they

walked along they

picked some of the grain

and ate it. It was per¬

fectly right for them to

pick this grain, for the

Jewish law said that

any one could pick the

ears with his hands

if he wanted to eat

them, but that no one

must cut the grain with

the sickle and take it

home unless it was his.

Wherever Jesus

went now some of the

Pharisees followed to

see what he was about.

So when these men saw

the friends of Jesus eat¬

ing the grain they said to him, “ Your disciples are doing what

is not right on the Sabbath.»

If the law gave the people the right to pick the grain in this

way, why was there any reason why the Pharisees should blame

them? You remember that these Jews were very strict about

some things, although in other ways they were very bad. One

of the things they were very strict about was the keeping of the

Sabbath. Their law said that they must not work on the Sab¬

bath, and they said that rubbing off the grain with the hands was,

work. So they did not allow it to be done on the Sabbath. They

The Disciples plucking Grain

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could not blame Jesus for breaking the law, because he had not

picked any of the grain. But they blamed him for allowing his