Sabbath and the People of God

Thomas Robinson, Luke: Anointed with God’s Spirit 15, November 7, 2021 Luke6:1-16 Trans.TR

Jesus’ Disciples Pick Grain on the Sabbath

1 And it happened one Sabbath, that Jesus was walking through the standing grain, and his disciples started plucking and eating the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. 2 Now, some of the Pharisees asked them, “Why are you doing what’s not lawful on the Sabbath?”

3 Then in response Jesus asked them, “Didn’t you ever read what David did when he himself was hungry, along with those with him? 4 How he entered into the house of God, and then taking the Loaves of the Presentation, he ate them and gave to those with him [1 Sam 21:1-6]. And it’s not lawful for any to eat those loaves, except only the priests?”

5 And he used to say to them, “The Son of the Human is Lord of the Sabbath.” Jesus Restores a Man’s Crippled Hand on the Sabbath

6 And it happened on another Sabbath, that he entered the synagogue and was teaching. Now a man was there, and his right hand was withered. 7 And the scribes and the Pharisees were closely watching Jesus, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, because they wanted to find a reason to accuse him.

8 Now he himself understood their ways of reasoning, and he said to the man with the withered hand, “Get up and stand in the center.”

And he rose and stood. 9 And Jesus said to them, “I’m asking all of you, whether it’s lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save a life or to destroy it?” 10 And after looking around at them all, he said to him, “Stretch out your hand.”

And he did so, and his hand was restored.

11 But these men were filled with mindless fury and they began talking intensely with each other what they might do to Jesus.

Jesus Names Twelve Disciples as Emissaries

12 And it happened during these days that he went out onto the mountain to pray, and he spent the whole night in that prayer with God. 13 Then, when day came, he called together his disciples and selected twelve of them, and these he designated “apostles”:

14 Simon, whom he also named Peter (“Rock”), and Andrew his brother, and James (Jacob)

and John, and Philip and Bartholomew, 15 and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of

Alphaeus, and Simon who was called a zealot, 16 and Judas (Judah) the son of James, and Judas

Iscariot, who became a betrayer. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Exodus 20:8-11 From the Ten Commandments
8 Remember the Sabbath day, and consecrate it. 9 Six days you shall serve and do all your

labor/occupation. 10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God; you shall not do any of your labor – you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. 11 For in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day. Therefore, Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it. [Gn 1:1 – 2:3]