Jesus shined the spirit of the law into every dark corner of religiosity, threatening the power base and sensibilities of the establishment from the temple to grain fields. Of all His iconoclastic behaviors—feasting with publicans, befriending prostitutes, touching lepers, flipping tables—none upset them as much as His deliberate actions on the Sabbath. His favorite activity on the seventh day of the week was healing people, but on this particular occasion His disciples were helping themselves to a snack.

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