Mark 2:23 — Compare Translations

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One Sabbath He was going along beside the fields of standing grain, and as they made their way, His disciples began to pick off the grains. [Deut. 23:25.]

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

One Sabbath He was going along beside the fields of standing grain, and as they made their way, His disciples began to pick off the grains. [Deut. 23:25.]

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain as they walked along.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

On the Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to make their way, picking some heads of grain.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

And it came to pass that he went on the sabbath through the cornfields; and his disciples began to walk on, plucking the ears.

English EASY 2024

On one Jewish day of rest, Jesus and his disciples were walking through some fields where wheat was growing. While they were walking along, his disciples picked some grains of wheat.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

On the Sabbath day, Jesus and his followers were walking through some grain fields. The followers picked some grain to eat.

One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Jesus was walking through some wheat fields on a Sabbath. As his disciples walked along with him, they began to pick the heads of wheat.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Once on a day of worship Jesus was going through the grainfields. As the disciples walked along, they began to pick the heads of grain.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

On the Sabbath He was going through the grainfields, and His disciples began to make their way picking some heads of grain.

English KJV 1611

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.

English LSB

And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

He went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. As they went, His disciples began to pluck the heads of grain.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

As he was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

One Sabbath day Jesus was walking with his disciples through the grainfields. The disciples began to break off some heads of grain.

English NIV

One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain.

English NKJ 1982

Now it happened that He went through the grainfields on the Sabbath; and as they went His disciples began to pluck the heads of grain.

English NLT

One Sabbath day as Jesus was walking through some grainfields, his disciples began breaking off heads of wheat.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

One sabbath he was going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

One Sabbath, Jesus and his disciples were walking through a field of wheat. The disciples were hungry, so they plucked off some heads of grain to eat.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

One sabbath he was going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Another time, on a Sabbath day as Jesus and his disciples were walking through the fields, the disciples were breaking off heads of wheat and eating the grain.

English Tyndale 1537

And it chanced (again) that he went thorow the corn fields on the Sabbath day, and his disciples as they went on their way, began to pluck the ears of corn.