I got a handful of movie tropes that are kind of my my favorite thing I mean they're not really my

favorite thing I just like to watch for them when they happen and one is when somebody

catches on fire they always inevitably do the opposite of what we were taught in third

grade which is stop stop dropping rolling instead

they flail around and wave their arms it's very comical.

Another one of my favorite tropes is whenever somebody steals a moped or a car

that's parked out in front of somewhere because they have to have a police

chase right now the person always inevitably runs out and shakes their fingers like

hey come back here to a car that's a block away and speeding.

I hate to break it to you, they're probably not coming back.

And another movie trope I like is the one where anybody does anything out of the ordinary

and some lady or some guy who look very common emerged from what they were doing and

shout, hey you can't do that and that is exactly what we get in Matthew chapter 12

from the Pharisees you got got some disciples as we're walking with Jesus and as they're going along they exercise their ancient legal right established in all sorts of different ancient near eastern legal codes, reaffirmed in Roman law, and certainly

affirmed in the Old Testament biblically.

And that right that they're exercising is the one to walk through these fields and not harvest, but to pick off a little bit of the food, to

mush it up in their hands, whatever, and grab a quick bite to eat along the way.

In even recent times, I've heard accounts from people saying

people still do this. The expectation is that as long as you're not harvesting it's

the way that hospitality lingers and manifests from time long lost in this part of the world.

But in the Old Testament, you really do have smoking guns specific references to this practice going on

and to it being allowed.

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