So when Jesus told his followers to pick ears of corn on the Sabbath, was he doing God's will? Even if you think he was God, it seems odd that he should either break the rules he had laid down, or felt he was a special case. Shouldn't they have done their gathering on another day?
Boudi, were the disciples gathering the corn in a systematic (work-style) manner, or simply picking the odd piece to chew as they walked through a field? From my reading, this was not a purposeful harvesting of the ears - but an off-the-cuff 'grazing' of the crop to relieve feelings of hunger. I wouldn't regard this as work, but the religious leaders seemed, from what we are told through the gospels, to find some sort of excuse to attack Jesus.
As for breaking the rules 'he had laid down', as I have already pointed out to Martin, a lot of this kind of detail had been added over the centuries by the priests and religious lawyers - almost as if they were looking for a reason to exist.
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