Marcos 2

Marcos 2

Stedman has an excellent message on Legalism. The best way to defeat the legalistic tendency of our fallen flesh is to walk by the Spirit and you will not fulfill the (legalistic) desires of the flesh (see commentary on Gal 5:16). And His disciples (mathetes - learners) began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain - Make and Picking are both in the present tense describing this as their continuous action. The were walking and picking and presumably eating. Picking (tillo) in classical Greek it was used of pulling out hair or feathers, which gives us a good picture of what the action of the disciples. On a Sabbath - This phrase on a Sabbath is found in Matt. 12:2; Matt. 24:20; Lk. 6:1; Lk. 14:5. Click here for lengthy discussion of the Sabbath in the commentary on Leviticus 23:3.