Plucking ears of corn on the Sabbath

Saint Mark - Chapter 2

Plucking corn on the Sabbath. J-J Tissot

[23] Et factum est iterum Dominus sabbatis ambularet per sata, et discipuli ejus coeperunt progredi, et vellere spicas.
And 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.

[24] Pharisaei autem dicebant ei : Ecce, quid faciunt sabbatis quod non licet?
And the Pharisees said to him: Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?

[25] Et ait illis : Numquam legistis quid fecerit David, quando necessitatem habuit, et esuriit ipse, et qui cum eo erant?
And he said to them: Have you never read what David did when he had need, and was hungry himself, and they that were with him?

[26] quomodo introibit in domum Dei sub Abiathar principe sacerdotum, et panes propositionis manducavit, quos non licebat manducare, nisi sacerdotibus, et dedit eis qui cum eo erant?
How he went into the house of God, under Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which was not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave to them who were with him?

[27] Et dicebat eis : Sabbatum propter hominem factum est, et non homo propter sabbatum.
And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

[28] Itaque Dominus est Filius hominis, etiam sabbati.
Therefore the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath also.

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
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