The Mercy Rule
Catherine Washington Matthew 12:1-8 (The Voice) The Sabbath came, and Jesus walked through a field. His disciples, who were hungry, began to pick some of the grain and eat it. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they reacted. Pharisees: Look! Your disciples are breaking the law of the Sabbath! Jesus: 3 Haven’t you read what David did? When he and his friends were hungry, 4 they went into God’s house and they ate the holy bread, even though neither David nor his friends, but only priests, were allowed that bread. 5 Indeed, have you not read that on the [...]