Matthew 12:1 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) About that time Jesus was walking through a grain field on the Sabbath day. His disciples were hungry so began picking off some heads of grain to eat [the kernels]. [Note: It was an accepted practice for people in that day to be permitted to do this as they walked along paths bordering a grain field]. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition AT THAT particular time Jesus went through the fields of standing grain on the Sabbath; and His disciples were hungry, and they began to pick off the spikes of grain and to eat. [Deut. 23:25.] American Standard Version (1901) At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears and to eat. Common English Bible At that time Jesus went through the wheat fields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry so they were picking heads of wheat and eating them. Catholic Public Domain Version At that time, Jesus went out through the ripe grain on the Sabbath. And his disciples, being hungry, began to separate the grain and to eat. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version AT that time Jesus went through the corn on the sabbath: and his disciples being hungry, began to pluck the ears, and to eat. |