When the Pharisees saw this. See note on Matthew 3:7. Some of them were always trying to trap Jesus. Look, it is against our Law. Moses said doing this was legal, but the Tradition of the Elders said it was illegal to eat grain on the Sabbath which had been threshed out in the hand by rubbing, since this involved work on the Sabbath day. The Pharisees made strict laws about everything, carrying these to absurd extremes. They said an egg, laid on Sunday, could not be eaten, since it represented work done on the Sabbath [Saturday]. (See note of Acts 1:12.)

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