Hey everyone. Welcome again to Logical Bible Study, and this is the podcast where we look at the gospel

reading from today's Mass, and we're really trying to get at the literal sense.

What does the text mean?

What's the Old Testament context?

Why does Jesus use particular words?

These are all things that we want to look at in these bite-sized exegesis episodes.

And today, if you go to Mass, you would hear from Luke chapter 6 versus 1 to 5.

So we'll start by reading the text.

One Sabbath, Jesus happened to be taking a walk through the corn fields, and his disciples were

picking ears of corn, rubbing them in their hands and eating them. Some of the Pharisees said,

Why are you doing something that is forbidden on the

Sabbath day? Jesus answered them. So you have not read what David did when he and his followers

were hungry, how he went into the house of God, took the loaves of offering and ate them,

and gave them to his followers, loaves which

only the priests are allowed to eat? And he said to them, the son of man is master of the Sabbath.

So this passage is pretty familiar probably to many of you who listen to the podcast, because

it appears in all three synoptic

gospels and all three versions are read throughout the liturgical year. So let's start by asking the

context. So Jesus, it's chapter six of Luke. So Jesus has just begun his ministry in Galilee. It's still

very early. He's been going around curing people and calling his first apostles.

Now, verse one, I'll just read out verse one in our lectionary because the way they've translated it

is a bit too casual and it's a bit misleading. Here's what the lectionary says. One Sabbath, Jesus

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