in their hands. Such eating was specifically allowed by the Law (Deut. 23:25). Because this occurred on one of the Sabbaths, however, the Pharisees could see only violations of the Law. As far as they were concerned, by picking the grain, the disciples were harvesting; by rubbing it in their hands, they were threshing; and by blowing away the chaff, they were winnowing. God’s Law did indeed forbid work on the Sabbath, but the Pharisees had defined work in such a way as to empty the Law of common