Lord of the Sabbath

Read Matthew 12:1-8

- At that time… may be but not necessarily the same day.

Jesus and his disciples are walking…on the Sabbath.

They casually pluck grain (Deuteronomy 23:25).

Pharisees jump at the opportunity.

The Law

The Mishnah is a collection of Halakot (laws and observances). These are authoritative Jewish tradition. They are found in the Talmud (Jerusalem and the Babylonian) which includes the Mishnah and commentary. A how-to for the Law of Moses.

There was division in these works on what Jesus did here. Later, the Gemara expressly permits this act. Basically “so long as you are not using a tool.”

Mishnah Chagigah 1:8

The laws concerning Shabbat, hagigit and trespassing are as mountains dangling by a hair, for they have scant scriprural basis but many halakhot.

*Qumran covenant was even worse

David:

Enters the tabernacle, lies to the priest, eats the consecrated bread.

....possibly and most traditionally understood to have been done on the Sabbath.

The point is to make them think about how they might have charged the beloved king, and to point out that Scripture doesn’t charge him.

Preists:

Priests work on the Sabbath and “profane” the temple. Right?

English Standard Version Chapter 12

And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.

Hosea 6:6, Isaiah 1

A condimnation of their interpretation.

Law and rituals are not worship.

Worship is an willing expression and not a compeled submittion.

Do they get it?

Read 12:9-14

What about the church?

Witin the church

Clothing, entertainment, hair styles...

Not only within the church but outside of the church