So many of them! The disciples were hungry and, without thinking, they began to pick some of the grain and then eat it. This is one way people use bible quotations to distort their real meaning. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! En ce temps-là, Jésus monta en barque, refit la traversée, et alla dans sa ville de Capharnaüm. Jesus knows the Tanakh (the Hebrew bible) by heart and invokes it to indicate that the arguments of the others had no foundation. If God is Father, then we should be brothers and sisters among ourselves.

The law should be at the service of life and of fraternity. Because of His great fidelity to this message, Jesus was condemned to death. If God is Father, then He accepts all as sons and daughters. Various passages may seem to contradict each other, unless put into a broader context where all of a particular reference can be put together in one place. NIV®. If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy, not sacrifice, you would not have condemned these innocent men. example of David from the Old Testament.Jesus always encourages us to do what is loving, kind, and Philémon Hébreux Jacques 1 Pierre 2 Pierre. ",http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/_INDEX.HTM,http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/_FA.HTM,Lectio Divina: 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A),Lectio: St. Matthew, the Evangelist - Mt 9:9-13.

Homélie sur l’Évangile selon Saint Matthieu 12:1-8 (évangile du jour commenté). Dans le chapitre précédent, Jésus constate pleinement son rejet et le ressent douloureusement dans son cœur. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. They were hungry. If the Pharisees had had this way of looking at the life of the prophet Hosea, they would have known that the most pleasing sacrifice for God is not that the consecrated persons lives far away from reality, but that he/she places  his/her consecrated heart totally in the service of the brothers and sisters in order to relieve them from their misery. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath." Matthew 12:1-8 - NIV: At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. Matthieu 12 … 7 Si vous saviez ce que signifie: Je prends plaisir à la miséricorde, et non aux sacrifices, vous n'auriez pas condamné des innocents. through a field of grain.It may be helpful to know that in the time of Jesus, the We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password.At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. By our life and work, we commit ourselves to be a presence of peace as we join our sisters and brothers in the common search for God. On a Sabbath day, the disciples went through the fields and they picked grain to eat them. “The human being is not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath for the human being” (Mk 2:27). The word mercy means to have the heart (cor) in the misery (miseri) of others, that is, the merciful person has to be very close to the suffering of the people, has to identify himself/herself with them. Matthew 12:1-8. They were hungry. Jesus also uses the Bible and responds invoking three examples taken from Scripture: (1) that of David, (2) that of the legislation on work of the priests in the temple and (3) from the action of the Prophet Hosea, that is, He quotes a historical book, a legislative book and a prophetic book.• Matthew 12:3-4:  The example of David.

The account contained in these verses is also recorded in Mark 2:23-28, and Luke 6:1-5. Jesus quotes a verse from the prophet Hosea: I want mercy and not sacrifice. Le Fils de l’homme, Seigneur du sabbat (v. 1-8). • Matthew 12:1-2: To pick grain on the Sabbath day and the criticism of the Pharisees. Carmel,Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath.

If Jesus knew the bible so well, it means that during the thirty years of His life in Nazareth, He had participated intensely in the life of the community, where Scripture was read every Saturday. Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”.“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’.you would not have condemned the innocent.For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”,Scripture quoted by permission. Accused by the religious authority, Jesus argues beginning from what they themselves, the religious authority, do on the Sabbath day. The conflicts were many: at home, in school, in work, in the community, in the Church, in personal life, in society.