Starting Over

Been away from the blog for 2 months.  I think the long entries on a weekly basis makes it a challenge to keep up.  I am going to try for short and daily.  That means I will need to work a passage over several days in order to do it justice.

 ¹ Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first that He went through the grainfields. And His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate them, rubbing them in their hands. ² And some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?”
³ But Jesus answering them said, “Have you not even read this, what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: ⁴ how he went into the house of God, took and ate the showbread, and also gave some to those with him, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat?” ⁵ And He said to them, “The Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.” (Luke 6:1-5, New King James Version)

What are some of the unfamiliar words in this passage?  We will take one a day to complete the story.

1. Sabbath
2. Pharisees
3. Lawful
4. David
5. Showbread
6. Priests
7. Son of Man
8. Lord of the Sabbath

We already talked about the Pharisees in a previous post called Short and Sweet.

So lets talk about the Sabbath.  It was a day of rest for the Jewish people as prescribed by God through Moses.  You might remember this is one of the ten commandments, Exodus 20:8-11.  Essentially the point is to rest from all busyness.  How are the Israelites to have a relationship with God if they are always running around doing stuff.  On the Sabbath "you shall not do any work".  It was set aside (made Holy) by God for the benefit of the Israelites.  It wasn't enough for the words that God had given through Moses to understand what this means, so a whole group of folks like the Pharisees, Scribes and Priests created volumes of books describing the rules on not working.

I think this will give us enough background as we look at the other terms over the coming days ahead.