Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageAnd it happened that on the Sabbath He was passing through the grain fields, and His disciples began to make their way picking heads of grain.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GAnd it came about that on the Shabbat He was passing through the grain fields, and His disciples began to make their way by plucking heads of grain.
KJV
King James VersionAnd it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleOne Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain as they walked along.
Footnotes
Eating grain while passing through a field was explicitly permitted by Torah (Deut 23:25); the Pharisaic objection was not to the eating itself but to the act of plucking, which they classified as a form of reaping — one of the 39 prohibited labours (מְלָאכוֹת, melachot) on Shabbat/Sabbath per m. Shabbat 7:2. This is a halakhic dispute about the definition of work, not a charge of theft.
