Mark 2:23
And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn. And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
On the Sabbath Jesus and His disciples walked through a field of ripening, standing grain, returning from worship after late work, and the hungry disciples plucked heads of grain and rubbed out the kernels in their hands and ate them. The act was lawful under God's law, which allowed a traveler or hungry person passing through a neighbor's grain, orchard, or vineyard to gather by hand what he desired to eat to satisfy hunger, though not to harvest with a sickle. The verse illustrates God's provision for the poor to take food from the land and that harvest gleanings were reserved for them, in contrast with later restrictions that denied the poor access to what grew in open fields.
The rabbis treated the act as Sabbath desecration and a double offense, counting gathering as reaping and rubbing in the hands as threshing. Scribes and Pharisees and Jewish rulers, impatient to accuse and watching and spying on all His actions and words without finding fault, charged Jesus and His disciples with breaking and transgressing the Sabbath because they plucked and rubbed and ate the wheat. The accusation against the Maker of the Sabbath showed blindness, as if the accusers had put out their own eyes, showing how those who insist on carrying God's work in their own way lose their bearings.
In walking through the fields they were keeping the Sabbath, for the act did not break the Sabbath commandment; Christ repelled the charge and declared and established the disciples guiltless and innocent, showing that the Sabbath permits what is in harmony with its command. The event exposes how the Sabbath had been perverted by burdensome human requirements that reflected selfish men rather than the loving Heavenly Father, and Jesus went straight forward keeping the Sabbath according to God's law without conforming to those requirements, to clear away the misconception that Sabbath observance as God requires makes men hard-hearted and cruel. Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath who made the Sabbath.
The One who vindicated the disciples with a dignity He alone possessed and cast over them the shield of His own prerogatives was God in the flesh, His divine nature not transformed into human nature but divine and human united, with all the fullness of the Godhead bodily acting out the principles that govern heaven, with all things delivered to Him of His Father, with life in Himself as the Father has life in Himself, and with authority to execute judgment because He is the Son of man.