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came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went
through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of
corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands. And it came to
pass on the second sabbath day after the first,.... Or "second
first sabbath", concerning which interpreters are greatly
divided. Some think, that it was either the seventh day of the
feast of unleavened bread, or the eighth day of the feast of
tabernacles. Others, that it was the sabbath which fell that
year on the day of Pentecost; and that as there were three grand
festivals among the Jews, the feasts of passover, Pentecost, and
tabernacles; so when the sabbath day fell on the feast of the
passover, it was called the first prime sabbath, when on the
feast of Pentecost, it was called the second prime sabbath, and
when on the feast of tabernacles, the third prime sabbath.
Others have been of opinion, that as the Jews had two beginnings
of their year, the one on