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-# pick heads of grain ... doing something that is not lawful on the Sabbath day
+# Connecting Statement:
 
-Plucking grain in others' fields and eating it was not considered stealing. The question was whether it was lawful to do this on the Sabbath.
+The Pharisees ask a question about what the disciples were doing (verse 23).
+
+# doing something that is not lawful on the Sabbath day
+
+Plucking grain in others' fields and eating it (verse 23) was not considered stealing. The question was whether it was lawful to do this on the Sabbath.
 
 # Look, why are they doing something that is not lawful on the Sabbath day?