As I read the passages, I can't stop thinking about the Pharisees kept chasing after Jesus and tried to find any reasons to accuse and condemn him. At the time they saw Jesus' disciples pick the head of grains and eat them on Sabbath and accused them of breaking the law. The reason is picking the heads of grain is equated with reaping, which was forbidden on the Sabbath. However, Jesus pointed out that some of the actions in Old Testament were permissible because they outweighed the Sabbath law.
Then Jesus here in the verses is saying how much more the presence of Jesus with His greater purpose justifies the conduct of his disciples. The ultimate justification for the disciples’ violation of the Sabbath rest is that Jesus has supreme authority over the law.
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Jesus was accused of breaking the law because He healed on the sabbath. we are often appalled at the hypocrisy of the pharisees, but i think we fail to recognize how much their attitudes are reflective of our own.
the presence of Jesus made the pharisees exceedingly unhappy because in His presence, the pharisees were made to feel profoundly their own hypocrisy and unrighteousness.
every one is conscious of their sin in the presence of Jesus. there are only two reactions to Him--to come to Him confessing our sins, or to metaphorically "plot to kill Him" as the Pharisees did.
for those of us who refuse to turn from our sins, we must "kill" Jesus by getting rid of His presence. the ways we do this are endless, the most common being hardening our hearts when we hear His words and banishing Him from our inner lives, even as we do the outward acts of worship.
The jealousy, the pharisees had towards Jesus, was a powerful emotion that drove them to later kill him. Jealousy leads to coveting, then coveting leads to hate. Haven't ever notice how you hate people simply because you're jealous of them.
The pharisees' jealousy made them desperate to accuse Jesus, thus it made them look even more foolish. I think we can learn what we shouldn't do by their example.
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