23It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.


In Context

20 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day.

21 No 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.

22 No 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.|

23 It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.

24 The Pharisees said to him, |Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?|

25 He said to them, |Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry—he, and those who were with him?

Mark 2:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:23And 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:23One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:23And it came to pass again, as the Lord walked through the corn fields on the sabbath, that his disciples began to go forward, and to pluck the ears of corn.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:23And it came to pass, that he was going on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:23And it came to pass that he went on the sabbath through the cornfields; and his disciples began to walk on, plucking the ears.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:23And it came to pass, that he was going on the sabbath day through the cornfields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:23And it came to pass, that he went through the corn-fields on the sabbath; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:23And it came to pass — he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields — and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:23And 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.