Jesus in the Grain Fields - Luke 6:1

The beloved physician Luke shared how Jesus, “spake also a parable unto” the scribes and Pharisees and said, “No man puts a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new makes a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agrees not with the old. And no man puts new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. No man also having drunk old wine straightway desires new: for he says, The old is better”, and in chapter six and verse one of his book Luke shares how Jesus and his disciples “went through the corn fields” where we read:

And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields;

and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.

The verse reads, “And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields;” Luke began with the words, “and it came to pass” or “and it happened or came into existence” “on the second sabbath after the first” which means “on the second of the Sabbaths after the feast of the Passover”, “that he went through the corn fields” or “that Jesus passed, traveled and journeyed by grain fields which were planted or sown”. Luke shared how Jesus traveled through a “planted grain field” on the “second sabbath day” after “Passover”.

The verse goes on to say, “and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.” Luke continued with the words, “and his disciples” which means “and Jesus' pupils, students and attendants” “plucked the ears of corn” or “pulled off the heads of grain from the stalks”, “and did eat” which means “and consumed and devoured them”, “rubbing them in their hands” or “triturating the kernels from the husks with their fingers or hand”. Luke shared how Jesus' students began to “pull” the kernels of grain from their stalks and “rub” them in their “fingers and hands”.

When we think through Luke's words in this verse, we learn about one of the normal day practices of Jesus and His disciples on “Sabbath days”. Although the “Sabbath” was to be a “day of rest”, Jesus and His disciples were walking through a “grain field”, and His disciples began to rub the kernels in their hands and ate them. People get hungry, and they need sustenance for their bodies. The law of the Jews allowed a person to take enough “grains” from a “grain field to suffice their hunger”, and the disciples were observing that law. There will be more declared to Jesus by the “religious leaders”, but for now let us understand God has given His provision through Jesus for both “physical and spiritual” needs of every person who submits their life to Him.

Next time Luke shares how, “the Pharisees said unto them, Why do you that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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