February 7th Mark 2:18-28: Jesus Questioned

Jesus answers a couple questions, both of them asked in a kind of legalistic why do you not do this attitude. The first is why did his disciples not fast. Fasting is when someone would not eat for the purpose of greater focus on prayer. Fasting is not bad, but in a lot of ways fasting had become bad over time. People would use it as a way to show how holy they were. They would openly declare that they were fasting and rub it in other peoples faces. Jesus gives a great answer to these questions explaining that while he is alive why would his followers fast? The second question is concerning the Sabbath. The Sabbath as to be God days of rest, but the Pharisees has turned the principle of rest into a series of very specific legalistic rules. They would say how far you could walk and what you exactly could or couldn’t do on the seventh day of the week. Jesus gives a historical example of David eating the food from the tabernacle and claims that the Sabbath was made for man. In other words doing what they were doing was not breaking the Sabbath, It also shows that Jesus is saying that he has authority over the law and the Sabbath.