Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-02-17

Ealing OF Matthew. ............. Matt. 9:s-lS.
FAILING OF Matthew. Mark 2:ls-l7
calling OF Matthew.............1.u Luke 5:y7-22
Question About Fasiing. Matt. still
Question About Fastiny. Mark 2:ls-22
question About Fasting. Luke 5:23-3s.
Plucking Grain on Sabbath. Matt. 12:l-s
P!ucking Grain on Sabbath. Mark =: % -.
Plucking Grain on Sabbath. Luke 6:l-5
Heal on the Sabbath. ........ Matt. l2:s-a
Heal on the Sabbath-........-..M Mark 3:1-6.
Heal on the Sabbath. Luke SSH
TlME-The summer harvest t!me) OF
A. ID. "a part OF The Year OF Public Fa-
vor').
PLACE.-A country road near Caper-
naum and synagogue In one OF the
Galilean towns
NOTES AND COMMENTS
Jesus teachings and methods and
those of the orthodox religious leaders
were so different in every particular that
trouble was certain 10 come. Many OF
, the scribes and Pharisees may have
been perfectly sincere, but their point OF
view was so entirely different from that
of Jesus that they could never see things
as He did. and OF course they considered
Him a hereto and a dangerous man. In
the first place. in teaching. IL not in char
acter. He seemed TO them to be an up
start. He spoke without authority"
And then He had made a publican one
of His disciples (9:9-l3). The Pharisees
saw in the publicans or tax collectors a
set of contemplate. unpatriotic merce-
naries who had sold themselves out TO
the hated Roman tyrants. Jesus eat
ing with publicans and sinners con-
WINGED the Pharisees that He was man
OF decidedly questionable character
/ Q1:19 Again Jesus and His disciples
braved all criticism and misunderst and-
ing OF the best people by ignoring the
! weekly HASTINGS and the rabbinical laws
enjoined and which all religious people
observed. Jesus was directly opposed TO
asceticism on principle. This opposi-
tion was considered an affront to the
whole religious system OF the Jews.
These four things. without the one we
take up next. were enough to insure the
bitter opposition of official Judaism
Matt 12:lS) One of Jesus most oh
noXious heresies was In regard TO the
Jewish Sabbath. The Fourth Com mand-
ment He always reverenced and obeyed.
but the absurd restrictions with which
the scribes had surrounded il He reject
ed bodily. Disciples were hungry"
What the disciples did was to meet the
physical necessity for food Began to
pluck ears and 10 eat:" This was per-
mitted by Jewish law on week days A
man passing by wheat field or a vine
yard might eat enough 10 satisfy his
/ hunger. But the oral law forbade this
on the Sabbath. on the ground that 10
pick the heads OF grain was harvesting.
10 rub them In the hands was threshing
hlnyy mo baf
! ing-which things were unlawful,
Note Jesus' twofold defense OF His
disciples: t) He cites examples $50;
reminds them of what David once did to
meet his own need q Sam 2l:6) They
would not think Of questioning he pro-
priety or David's act. especially since he
did what he did with the sanction of the
priest In his case necessity was seen to
be above ritual. Even the law (Num.
2S:9-l0) recognized that certain work
connected with the sacrifices was neces-
sary and therefore right GU He shows
the underlying principles. t6-S) THE
Pharisees were men Of rules. not accus-
TONED 10 20 back on principles The pas
sion Tor minutiae killed reflection -
Bruce "One greater than the temple"
Commonly taken as a reference TO Him
self. but thp Greek reads: But I saw
unto Won greater thing than the tenn
pie is here" The man-made regulations
had given way before the claims of the
temple service. the lesser interest Civ
Ing way 10 the greater greater inter
est than that OF keeping up the temple
sacrliices was involved here: II was the
work of The kingdom itself This inter
probation is the more natural either Is
possible II desire mercy and not sacri-
fee" tHos 6:G): Jesus way of remind
ing them that the principle He was con-
tending for was Scriptura THE Son
Of man is lord OF the Sabbath" Mark
quotes Him as saying in this connection.
THE Sabbath was made for man. and
rot man for the Sabbath" The real
good OF The Sabbath had been lost:
Christ's purpose was 10 restore il.
~. $40 as II lawful to heal on the
Sabbath day" Jesus does not answer
the question directly. but with an illus
tration tries TO appeal 80 their common
sense and humane feelings The discus
sion over the picking Of the heads NJ
wheat made His position plain on works
OF necessity: This deals with works OF
mercy. u u lawful 10 90 GOOD on the
Sabbath: To refuse 10 90 good 10 one
who needs II is to DO evil. no1natter what
the dav OF the week. Jesus was unyieId-
ing. His influence wes Increasing and
the Phsrisees saw that the only way 10
silence Him was 10 Kill Him. and He
must be silenced.
Good Deeds md Had.