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The parable of the Plucking Heads of Grain on the Sabbath in the gospels of Mathew, Mark, and Luke, has a vast amount of similarities. It seems that it is almost impossible to identify differences between the three different versions of the parable. This observation tends to hold true for the three gospels as a whole; in essence, they seem to have little, to no differences. However, in a closer examination of the parable of the Plucking Heads, it is found that there are three slight variations between the Gospels that provide significant differences. With the discovery of these differences, the relevance and necessity of having three different Gospels all telling the same story then becomes clear. The first difference found between the three writers of thi