Mark 2:23 – 3:6
One sabbath he was going through the cornfields; and as they
made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said
to him, ‘Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?’ And he
said to them, ‘Have you never read what David did when he and his companions
were hungry and in need of food? He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was
high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any
but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions.’ Then he said to
them, ‘The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath;
so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.’
Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had
a withered hand. They watched him to see whether he would cure him on the
sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man who had the
withered hand, ‘Come forward.’ Then he said to them, ‘Is it lawful to do good
or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?’ But they were silent.
He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart
and said to the man, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ He stretched it out, and his hand
was restored. The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the Herodians
against him, how to destroy him.
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Always the tension between what we'll hear Jesus say in chapter 5: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill." But here it could easily sound like he's come to abolish the law - at least that's how the Pharisees must have heard it.
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Always the tension between what we'll hear Jesus say in chapter 5: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill." But here it could easily sound like he's come to abolish the law - at least that's how the Pharisees must have heard it.
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