These two passages of story we had both in Matthew and Mark, and they were there laid together ( Matt. 12:1 ; Mark 2:23 ; 3:1 ), because, though happening at some distance of time from each other, both were designed to rectify the mistakes of the scribes and Pharisees concerning the sabbath day, on the bodily rest of which they laid greater stress and required greater strictness than the Law-giver...