Luke 6:1

New American Standard Bible 2020

Now it happened that Jesus was passing through some grainfields on a Sabbath, and His disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.

Cross References

Exodus 12:15

For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove dough with yeast from your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.

Leviticus 23:15

‘You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete Sabbaths.

Leviticus 23:7

On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.

Luke 5:39

And no one, after drinking old wine wants new; for he says, ‘The old is fine.’ ”

Luke 6:6

On another Sabbath He entered the synagogue and taught; and a man was there whose right hand was withered.

Deuteronomy 16:9

“You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.

Deuteronomy 23:25

“When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you are not to use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.