Mark 2:23

The Disciples pluck the Ears of Corn

23. on the sabbath day St Luke tells us that this was a "second first Sabbath" i. e. either (1) the first Sabbath after the second day of unleavened bread; or (2) the first Sabbath in the second year of a Sabbatical cycle; or (3) the first Sabbath of the second month (Luke 6:1). See Wieseler's Chronol. Synop. p. 353 sq.

to pluck the ears of corn From St Matthew we learn that they were an hungred(Matthew 12:1). The act described marks the season of the year. The wheat was ripe, for they would not have rubbed barley in their hands (Luke 6:1). We may conclude therefore, the time was a week or two after the Passover, when the first ripe sheaf was offered as the firstfruits of the harvest. For the exact date of this Sabbath see Wieseler's Chronol. Synop. p. 225 sq.