Mark 1:1-8
John the Baptist Prepared The Way For Jesus
Mark 1:9-20
Jesus Begins to Pick His Staff
Mark 1:21-34
Jesus Deals With an Unclean Spirit
Mark 1:29-34
Jesus Heals Peter’s Mother-in-Law
Mark 1:35-39
Jesus Rises Early to Spend Time With His Father
Mark 1:40-45
Jesus Touched The Leper And Healed Him
Mark 2:1-12
Jesus Heals The Paralyzed Man
Mark 2:13-17
Jesus Chooses Matthew as a Disciple
Mark 2:18-22
Pharisees Think There is Merit in Fasting
Mark 2:23-28
Jesus Plucks Grain on The Sabbath
Mark 3:1-6
Jesus Healing of The Man With The Witherd Hand
Mark 3:7-12
Crowds Come to See Jesus Performing Miracles
Mark 3:13-19
Jesus Delegates Responsibilities to His Disciples
Mark 3:20-30
Jesus Faces Opposition From Both Friend And Foe
Mark 3:31-35
Jesus’ Family Come to Take Him Home
Mark 4:1-9
Jesus Teaches on Sowing Seed in 4 Types of Soil
Mark 4:10-20
Jesus Explained The Parable of The Sower
Mark 4:21-29
Jesus Teaches in Parables
Mark 4:30-41
The Parable of The Mustard Seed
Mark 5:1-10
The Demon Possessed Man at Gerasa
Mark 5:11-20
Two Thousand Hogs Drown
Jesus Plucks Grain on The Sabbath
Mark 2:23–28
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The story was told some years ago of a pastor who found the roads blocked one Sunday morning and was forced to skate on the river to get to church, which he did. When he arrived the elders of the church were horrified that their preacher had skated on the Lord’s day. After … More
Jesus and His disciples were walking through the grain fields (probably wheat) on the Sabbath day (Saturday). Fields were not fenced but marked out by stones so that taking shortcuts through planted fields was not unusual. As they walked the disciples plucked some heads of grain. The Pharisees saw what the disciples were doing and immediately complained to Jesus. They were not suggesting that the disciples were stealing. The Mosiac law specifically stated that anyone could help themselves, to the heads of grain when walking through some ones field (Deut. 23:25). Instead they were accusing the disciples of working on the Sabbath.
Jesus answered their criticism by reminding them of how David ate the sacred bread in the Temple when he was fleeing from Saul and became hungry (I Sam. 21:1-6). The Pharisees had concluded that David was justified in eating the sacred bread rather than starving. In this comparison Jesus was saying that the satisfying of human need is more important than the observance of religious ritualism, just as they had already concluded in David’s case.
This passage confronts us with certain essential truths which it is easy for us to forget.
Application
Many of the Pharisees were so caught up in their man-made laws and traditions that they lost sight of what was good and right. God provided the Sabbath as a day of rest and worship, but He didn’t mean that concern for rest should keep me from lifting a hand to help others.
Mark 2:23-28 (English Standard Version)
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