ἔλεγον αὐτῷ. In this case they speak to Christ against His disciples; indirectly against Him. ὁ οὐκ ἔξεστιν : the offence was not trampling the grain or straw, but plucking the ears reaping on a small scale; rubbing = threshing, in Lk. χρείαν ἔσχε καὶ ἐπείνασεν : another example of Mk.'s duality, intelligible only if hunger was the point of the story. The verbs are singular, because David (αὐτὸς) is the hero, his followers in the background.

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Old Testament