One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields. As they were going, His disciples began to pluck heads of grain and eat.
This verse presents a situation that was meant to expose people’s mistaken ideas about the Sabbath day. The disciples were plucking heads of grain along the way to ease their hunger, and this simple action, as we will see next, becomes a повод for dispute. The Gospel often shows how religious formalism can blind a person so much that he forgets the true purpose of the law. The Sabbath was God’s gift for a person’s well-being, rest, and remembrance of God, but it had been turned into a heavy burden because of strict human interpretations. Next, Christ reveals the true meaning of the law and returns it to its original purpose.