Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Did take (labwn). Second aorist active participle of lambanw. Not in Mark and Matthew. See Matthew 12:1-8; Mark 2:23-28 for discussion of details about the shewbread and the five arguments in defence of his conduct on the sabbath (example of David, work of the priests on the sabbath, prophecy of Hosea 6:6, purpose of the sabbath for man, the Son of Man lord of the sabbath). It was an overwhelming and crushing reply to these pettifogging ceremonialists to which they could not reply, but which increased their anger. Codex D transfers verse Luke 6:5 to after verse Luke 6:10 and puts here the following: "On the same day beholding one working on the sabbath he said to him: Man, if you know what you are doing, happy are you; but if you do not know, cursed are you and a transgressor of the law."
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 6:4:
John 5:9
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