At that time, Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath.

His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him,

look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.

He said to them, have you not read what David did when he was hungry and those who are with him?

How he entered the house of God

and ate the bread of the presents, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who

are with him but only for the priests?

Or have you not read in the law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the

Sabbath and are guiltless?

I tell you something greater than the temple is here.

And if you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless,

for the son of man is the Lord of the Sabbath. Oh, man. There's so much in this, the idea of the

Sabbath, how what Jesus said said I tell you something greater than

the temple is here of course he's talking about himself the realization of his presence no

longer the temple is no longer fulfilling what it had for had the role it had fulfilled

for millennia.

Oh, man.

So there's so much here where we particularly want to zero in on Sabbath and what rest means for the Christian couple.

Okay?

For the Christian life, yes.

But how that works itself out in our marriages and in our families, it's been monumental for us in terms of figuring out rhythms of rest and finding true rest in Christ.

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