GOP Gospel: The Sabbath I
Mar. 5th, 2021 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinDay 14 of my Lent project. For background, please read this.
A reading from the Gospel according to the GOP:
Matthew 12:1-8
At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath." He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests. Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests in the temple break the sabbath and yet are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice', you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is lord of the sabbath."
The Pharisees were a sect of Judaism which believed in following every rule laid out in the Hebrew Bible literally and to the letter. Jesus was always running up against them. Somehow, no one in Christian fundamentalism seems to have considered which side of these disputes they themselves might align with.
A reading from the Gospel according to the GOP:
At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath." Jesus turned around and saw that what they said was true, and berated his disciples. "You know the Law of the Lord, that the Sabbath is holy, and no harvest is to be made upon it, yet your stomachs are a louder voice than the Word of God! Woe to you, unfaithful disciples, for you have brought dishonour upon us in the eyes of these righteous ones."
Matthew 12:1-8
At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath." He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests. Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests in the temple break the sabbath and yet are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice', you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is lord of the sabbath."
The Pharisees were a sect of Judaism which believed in following every rule laid out in the Hebrew Bible literally and to the letter. Jesus was always running up against them. Somehow, no one in Christian fundamentalism seems to have considered which side of these disputes they themselves might align with.
