Mar 2:23 | RWP | e4.org | Through the cornfields ( δια των σποριμων ). See on . So Matt. and . But Mark uses παραπορευεσθα , to go along beside, unless διαπορευεσθα (BCD) is accepted. Perhaps now on the edge, now within the grain. Mark uses also οδον ποιειν , to make a way like the Latin iter facere , as if through the standing grain, plucking the ears ( τιλλοντες τους σταχυας ). Work of preparing food the rabbis called it. 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). See on for discussion of this passage, parallel also in .

‏ Mark 2:23

Through the cornfields ( δια των σποριμων ). See on Mt 12:1. So Matt. and Lu 6:1. But Mark uses παραπορευεσθα, to go along beside, unless διαπορευεσθα (BCD) is accepted. Perhaps now on the edge, now within the grain. Mark uses also οδον ποιειν, to

make a way like the Latin iter facere, as if through the standing grain,

plucking the ears ( τιλλοντες τους σταχυας ). Work of preparing food the rabbis called it. 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). See on Mt 12:1-8 for discussion of this passage, parallel also in Lu 6:15.