Luke 6:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

Now it came about that on the Sabbath he was going through the fields of grain, and his disciples took the heads of the grain for food, crushing them in their hands.

Cross References

Exodus 12:15

For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel.

Leviticus 23:15

And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering;

Leviticus 23:7

On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work.

Luke 5:39

And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.

Luke 6:6

And it came about, on another Sabbath, that he went into the Synagogue and was teaching there. And a man was there whose right hand was dead.

Deuteronomy 16:9

Let seven weeks be numbered from the first day when the grain is cut.

Deuteronomy 23:25

When you go into your neighbour's field, you may take the heads of grain with your hand; but you may not put your blade to his grain.