Gospel:
Mark 2:23-28
As Jesus
was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to
make a path while picking the heads of grain. At this the Pharisees said to him
“Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath? He said to them,
“Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his
companions were hungry? How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was
high priest and ate the bread of
offering that only the priests could lawfully eat, and shared it with his
companions? Then he said to them “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the
sabbath. That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”
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Reflection:
Why was
Jesus so popular with the common people of His time? This is for the reason
that He violates some religious norms of the Pharisees for the greater good of
the people that He loves so dearly. For
example, the picking of grain during Sabbath day, doing this was prohibited
based on the Jewish religion. But Jesus dared to violate this law for the good
of His disciples.
Laws or
religious norms are good for the reason that it teaches us obedience and
discipline. But there are times that we have to violate it so that it could
serve a higher and nobler purpose. In the gospel the nobler or higher purpose
why Jesus violated the Sabbath law was to feed the hungry stomachs of His
disciples.
Jesus
violated the Sabbath law for the reason that humans are more important that
laws. We can amend a law or extinguish
the life of a law but are we willing to extinguish the life of a human being to
serve the law?
In a
deeper sense Jesus is teaching us that the important need of a person (In this
case the need for food) is far more important than any law. For Jesus it’s
always the good of His people than the observance of any kind of religious
law/s.
This norm
of Jesus stands until today we are His priority more than any other rule/law in
this world. How about you? Is Jesus your priority more than any other
undertaking in this world? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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