[Jesus Chronicles 4 ] LaHaye, Tim _ Jenkins, Jerry B - Matthew's Story- From Sinner to Saint by Jenkins Jerry; LaHaye Tim

Author:Jenkins, Jerry; LaHaye, Tim [Jenkins, Jerry; LaHaye, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2010-01-12T08:00:00+00:00

ON THE NEXT Sabbath the disciples were with Jesus as He wandered through a grain field, followed by the seemingly ever-present Pharisees. Matthew knew the others had to be as hungry as he. They began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

Suddenly the Pharisees shouted, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!”

Jesus stopped and turned and let the holy men catch up to Him. “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and yet are blameless?

“Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple. 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 even of the Sabbath.”

Matthew caught James’s eye and could see in his visage the same wonder he felt at merely hearing this Man talk. He did not deserve to have the privilege to get a glimpse of the Messiah, the Son of God, let alone to be called His friend and His disciple. He had lived his whole life at war with God, yet now He felt forgiven and cleansed. Even better, his days were filled with the presence of a Man so wise, so profound, that it was all he could do to remember everything in order to be able to record it.

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