Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him? Mark 2:23. Probably not. Without these all the rest is heartless and an empty performance. Active. A double argument which our Saviour uses, to prove that the sabbath's observation may be dispensed with in a case of absolute necessity; 1. By contrast, perhaps we can trust ourselves to that freedom which we enjoy as God’s sons and daughters - sisters and brothers of Jesus. It was a time to rest from work, yet it still expressed real creativity, a continued sharing in “the way of being” of God. Works of mercy and necessity for preserving our lives, and for the better fitting us for sabbath-services, are certainly lawful for the sabbath-day. This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. Were the Pharisees satisfied with his answer? διὰ] He passed by or journeyed (so our Evangelist uses the word, see reff.) All positive laws must yield to man's necessities. First published online in 1996 at The Restoration Movement Pages. This is a simplified translation of the original Greek word. "The Adam Clarke Commentary". 4, M. 137) says that not a sprig or leaf might be cut, nor any kind of fruit gathered. 1865-1868. He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions." https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bul/mark-2.html. Finding the new version too difficult to understand? Mark 2:23. He spoke of the occasion when David .. and his companions were hungry. Popularity relative to other verses in Mark chapter 2 using average monthly Google searches. Ver. © 2017 QuotesCosmos ● Home ● About ● Privacy ● Terms ● Principles ● Sitemap ● Contact. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/mark-2.html. Argument is drawn from the authority which Christ, the Institutor of the sabbath, has over it. Marcus, Mark, 248. But it is doubtful whether in Hellenistic Greek the classic distinction was observed, and Judges 17:8 (Sept(15)) supplies an instance of ὁδὸν ποιεῖν = making way, “as he journeyed”. Jesus did not directly defend the disciples’ action but introduced a whole new attitude to Sabbath that went far beyond meticulous observation of sets of laws. Broadman Press 1932,33. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/wen/mark-2.html. How otherwise could the remarkable addition in our narrative, Mark 2:27, at all bear upon the case? BibliographyAlford, Henry. both say or imply that the plucking was in order to eating by hungry men. ‘The Sabbath was made for humankind.’ Whenever blind authoritarianism confronts common sense, this word of Jesus holds us. Work and productivity were not to dominate human life and endeavour. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain. Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments, Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. and Lk. Used by Permission. "Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges". BibliographySchaff, Philip. "Commentary on Mark 2:23". Before God I review my thoughts and words to take care but I do not measure the world by my own small scale. BibliographyPett, Peter. The law as a formal common element may be broken, yet its spirit may be honoured. "Commentary on Mark 2:23". Choose music to play during the daily prayer. ), “to go onwards,” progredi, although the usual Greek for this is ὁδὸν ποιεῖσθαι (Judges 17:8). Do you think that's true? The margin of the Revised Version has it correctly: They began to make their way plucking the ears of corn (grain, wheat or barley, we should say). It was in the latter end of the priesthood of Ahimelech, and probably Abiathar assisted his father in the execution of the office, and so suddenly succeeded, that Mark calls it the time of his priesthood. ὁδὸν ποιεῖν. And he said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food? Copyright StatementThe New John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible Modernised and adapted for the computer by Larry Pierce of Online Bible. To pluck the ears of corn - They were hungry, Matthew 12:1. And it was not just a matter of being awkward. The King James Bible (1611) and Strong's Concordance (1890) with Hebrew and Greek dictionaries are sourced from the BibleForgeDB database (https://github.com/bibleforge) within the BibleForge project (http://bibleforge.com). What does Mark 2:23 mean? 1863-1878. It was, of course, a violation to thresh wheat on the sabbath; but the charge that Jesus' disciples' plucking a few ears of wheat, shelling them in their hands, and eating a bite as they passed along - the charge that made such actions threshing wheat on the sabbath was absolutely ridiculous. See on Matthew 12:2.. He urges the strict classical sense of ὁδὸν ποιεῖν, ‘to make a way,’ viam munire, or sternere, and insists on the sense conveyed by our narrative being, as distinguished from those in (9) Matt., Luke, that the disciples made a way for themselves through the wheat field by plucking the ears of corn, further maintaining, that there is no allusion here to their having eaten the grains of wheat, as in (10) Matt. Then he said to them, "The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath. Mark 2:23-28 The Kingdom Challenges the Law – The Sabbath. "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". Compare Luke 6:1-11. It was not exclusively for Jews but was meant also for slaves and foreigners as well. Copyright StatementJames Burton Coffman Commentaries reproduced by permission of Abilene Christian University Press, Abilene, Texas, USA. What concerns the Pharisees instead is the fact that they are traveling and gleaning on the sabbath. His disciples began. There is a relation of life to positive laws; there is a relation to moral law, which is higher and more exacting. Mark uses also παραπορευεσται hodon poiein to make a way like the Latin iter facere, as if through the standing grain, plucking the ears (διαπορευεσται tillontes tous stachuas). Copyright StatementThese files are public domain.Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. Assuming that the disciples made a path for their Master by pulling up the grain, with which it was overgrown, or by trampling the straw after plucking the ears, what did they do with the latter? BibliographyBurkitt, William. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use our convenient, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn, He went through the corn fields on the sabbath, Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament, Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament. Through the cornfields (δια των σποριμων dia tōn sporimōn). How the Pharisees (who accompanied our Saviour only with a design to cavil at, and quarrel with, every thing that either he or his disciples did) blame this action of the disciples, namely, the plucking the ears of corn on the sabbath-day. BibliographyCoffman, James Burton. in Mark 1:9, Mark 4:4. B.C. David ate the shew-bread, and the priests profaned the temple, and yet were guiltless. Some think the sense is: broke a way through the grain by plucking off the ears. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/wbc/mark-2.html. What does this verse really mean? Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail.