Luke 6:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

One Sabbath when Jesus and his disciples were walking through some wheat fields, the disciples picked some wheat. They rubbed the husks off with their hands and started eating the grain.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:25

In the same way, if you are in a grain field that belongs to someone else, you can pick heads of grain and eat the kernels. But don't cut down the stalks of grain and take them with you.

Leviticus 23:7

On the first day of this festival you must rest from your work and come together for worship.

Exodus 12:15

For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. And on the first of these seven days, you must remove all yeast from your homes. If you eat anything made with yeast during this festival, you will no longer be part of Israel.

Deuteronomy 16:9

Seven weeks after you start your grain harvest,

Leviticus 23:15

Seven weeks after you offer this bundle of grain, each family must bring another offering of new grain.

Luke 5:39

No one wants new wine after drinking old wine. They say, “The old wine is better.”

Luke 6:6

On another Sabbath Jesus was teaching in a Jewish meeting place, and a man with a crippled right hand was there.