Luke 6:1
“Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate, rubbing them in their hands.”
What does Luke 6:1 mean?
Jesus and his disciples were walking through grain fields on the Sabbath, and because they were hungry, the disciples picked some grain heads and ate them. This simple act of picking grain to eat was about to become the center of a conflict with the religious leaders who were watching. The detail about rubbing the grain in their hands shows they were preparing it to eat, not harvesting it for profit or storage. In this quiet moment of satisfying hunger, Jesus is about to teach something important about what the Sabbath rules really meant.