Plucking Corn on the Sabbath. Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost

1-8. Plucking the corn on the sabbath (Mark 2:23; Luke 6:1). This chapter begins the period of active conflict with the Pharisees. It is characteristic of the pedantry of the Pharisees that their opposition turned more upon minute points of legal observance than upon broad principles. The Fourth Gospel agrees with the synoptists in making the sabbath controversy of leading importance in the development of hostility to Christ (John 5:9; John 7:22; John 9:14). St. Matthew's account of this incident is the fullest.

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