Comme ses disciples avaient faim, ils se mirent à cueillir des épis pour en manger les grains [1]. If Jesus knew the bible so well, it means that during the thirty years of His life in Nazareth, He had participated intensely in the life of the community, where Scripture was read every Saturday. In every community there was only one copy written by hand, which remained in the synagogue. Jesus knows the Tanakh (the Hebrew bible) by heart and invokes it to indicate that the arguments of the others had no foundation. Yet nobody said that this was against the Law. 2 Les Pharisiens s’en aperçurent et ils lui dirent : En effet, le Fils de l'homme est le Seigneur du sabbat. We need to know the bible in depth and to participate deeply in the community, as Jesus did.• What type of conflicts do you find in the family, in society, in the Church? (Mc 2:23-28. In today’s Gospel, Jesus and his disciples were walking through a field of grain. At that time - Luke Luk 6:1 fixes the time more particularly. They would not have considered guilty those who in reality were innocent.• Matthew 12:8: The Son of Man is the master of the Sabbath. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath." Matthieu 12.8. Jesus also uses the Bible and responds invoking three examples taken from Scripture: (1) that of David, (2) that of the legislation on work of the priests in the temple and (3) from the action of the Prophet Hosea, that is, He quotes a historical book, a legislative book and a prophetic book.• Matthew 12:3-4:  The example of David. The image of God which others had was that of a severe Judge who only threatened and condemned. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Carmel,Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. They were conflicts regarding growth, relationship, age, mentality. The Pharisees arrived and invoke the Bible to say that the disciples were transgressing the law of the Sabbath (cf. Homélie sur l’Évangile selon Saint Matthieu 12:1-8 (évangile du jour commenté). Accused by the religious authority, Jesus argues beginning from what they themselves, the religious authority, do on the Sabbath day. Ici, ce rejet s’accentue et les conséquences pour le peuple juif sont présentées, savoir le rejet du peuple et son jugement. All rights reserved worldwide. sensible.We, the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand, Indiana, are monastic women seeking God through the Benedictine tradition of community life, prayer, hospitality, and service to others. Because of His great fidelity to this message, Jesus was condemned to death. The account contained in these verses is also recorded in Mark 2:23-28, and Luke 6:1-5. Jesus quotes a verse from the prophet Hosea: I want mercy and not sacrifice. Le Fils de l’homme, Seigneur du sabbat (v. 1-8). Et voici qu’on lui présenta un paralysé, couché sur une civière. 1 En ce temps-là Jésus traversait des champs de blé, et c’était un jour de sabbat. By our life and work, we commit ourselves to be a presence of peace as we join our sisters and brothers in the common search for God. ".• In today’s Gospel we see that there are many conflicts between Jesus and the religious authority of that time. Ses disciples, qui avaient faim, se mirent à arracher des épis et à manger. 2 Quand les pharisiens virent cela, ils dirent à Jésus : Regarde tes disciples : ils font ce qui est interdit le jour du sabbat ! Lu 6:1-5.) The new experience of God the Father made Jesus discover God’s intention  in decreeing the laws of the Old Testament. They thought of it as normal! His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. En ce temps-là, Jésus monta en barque, refit la traversée, et alla dans sa ville de Capharnaüm. SABBAT : POUR DIRE « JE T’AIME » 1 En ce temps-là, Jésus traversa des champs de blé un jour de sabbat. # De 23:25. They were hungry. 1 Jean 2 Jean 3 Jean Jude Apocalypse. Sra. Jesus recalls that David himself did something which was forbidden by the Law, because he took the sacred bread of the temple and gave it to the soldiers to eat, because they were hungry (1 Sam 21:2-7). 1-8: cf. In our day, they would be conflicts regarding, for example, matrimony between divorced persons, friendship with prostitutes, acceptance of homosexuals, communion without being married by the Church, Sunday mass obligation, fasting on Good Friday. example of David from the Old Testament.Jesus always encourages us to do what is loving, kind, and If God is Father, then He accepts all as sons and daughters. Les disciples avaient faim et ils commencèrent à cueillir des épis pour les manger. Voyant leur foi, Jésus dit au paralysé : « Confiance, mon enfant, tes péchés sont pardonnés. Order of the brothers of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt. He disturbed the system, and the system defended itself, using its force against Jesus, because He wished that the Law be placed at the service of life, and not vice-versa. Jesus lived this and prayed for this, from the beginning until the end. ",http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/_INDEX.HTM,http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/_FA.HTM,Lectio Divina: 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A),Lectio: St. Matthew, the Evangelist - Mt 9:9-13. If the Pharisees had had this way of looking at the life of the prophet Hosea, they would have known that the most pleasing sacrifice for God is not that the consecrated persons lives far away from reality, but that he/she places  his/her consecrated heart totally in the service of the brothers and sisters in order to relieve them from their misery. The conflicts were many: at home, in school, in work, in the community, in the Church, in personal life, in society. En voyant cela, les pharisiens lui dirent: 12. 1 Thessaloniciens 2 Thessaloniciens 1 Timothée 2 Timothée Tite. Précédent. Précédent. The bible is online in searchable form in an approved version at.Lord, I muse on You in the watches of the night,Provincial Chapter of the Neapolitan Province,General Chapter of the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm,Electoral Chapter of the Monastery of Ntra. Mc 2:23. 14 avril 2020. The disciples were hungry and, without thinking, they began to pick some of the grain and then eat it. “The human being is not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath for the human being” (Mk 2:27). Matthieu 12 … 7 Si vous saviez ce que signifie: Je prends plaisir à la miséricorde, et non aux sacrifices, vous n'auriez pas condamné des innocents. It was the Sabbath. If God is Father, then we should be brothers and sisters among ourselves. They were hungry. Matthieu 12 Bible du Semeur Jésus maître du sabbat 1 A cette époque, un jour de sabbat, Jésus traversait des champs de blé. They are conflicts regarding the religious practices of that time: fasting, purity, observance of the Sabbath, etc. Ex 20:8-11). Lu 6:1. No Pharisee had the courage to criticize King David!• Matthew 12:5-6: The example of the priests. He says that it was "the second Sabbath after the first." Having lived thirty years in Nazareth and feeling as His own the oppression and exclusion of so many brothers and sisters, in the name of the law, Jesus must have perceived that this could not be the meaning of the law. This is one way people use bible quotations to distort their real meaning. He said to the them, "Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry, how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat? Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. Reflection: Matthew 12:1-8 Friday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time – Matthew 12:1-8. Jesus Himself is the criterion for interpretation of the Law of God. Jesus tries to have mercy prevail, since the objective of the Law is the practice of Love.• Matthew 12:1-2: To pick grain on the Sabbath day and the criticism of the Pharisees. What are the conflicts which concern religious practices which  cause suffering to people nowadays and which are a cause of discussion and polemics? On a Sabbath day, the disciples went through the fields and they picked grain to eat them. NIV®. We are born with birth pangs. Chapitre 12. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. Jesus ends with this statement: The Son of Man is the master of the Sabbath! What strikes us is the way in which Jesus faces the conflicts. The Vatican has tools online to help. The word sacrifice means to have (ficio)  a thing consecrated (sacri), that is, that the one who offers a sacrifice separates the sacrificed object from profane use and places it at a distance from the daily life of the people. farmers were encouraged to leave some wheat on the edges of fields for the poor Matthew 12:1-8. Les épis arrachés. On a Sabbath day, the disciples went through the fields and they picked grain to eat them. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them.When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Matthieu 12 1–8. En ce temps-là, Jésus traversa des champs de blé un jour de sabba Various passages may seem to contradict each other, unless put into a broader context where all of a particular reference can be put together in one place. The law should be at the service of life and of fraternity. For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath. Conflicts are not accidents along the way, but form part of the journey, of the process of conversion. (,Compiled & Edited by Crosswalk Editorial Staff. to eat.Jesus responded to the Pharisees’ question by using the To live life without conflicts is impossible! Dans le chapitre précédent, Jésus constate pleinement son rejet et le ressent douloureusement dans son cœur. Ex 20:8 … Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”.“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’.you would not have condemned the innocent.For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”,Scripture quoted by permission. 8 Car le Fils de l'homme est maître du sabbat. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. At that time, there were no printed bibles as we have today. The word mercy means to have the heart (cor) in the misery (miseri) of others, that is, the merciful person has to be very close to the suffering of the people, has to identify himself/herself with them. If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy, not sacrifice, you would not have condemned these innocent men. The Law itself obliged them to do all this (Num 28:9-10).• Matthew 12:7: The example of the prophets. Nous remercions le Père Gilbert Adam d'avoir gracieusement mis à … Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Conflict is part of life and starts at birth. In the discussion with His enemies, He was not trying to show them that He was right, but wished to make the experience which He, Jesus, had of God, Father and Mother, prevail. The Pharisees arrived and invoke the Bible to say that the disciples were transgressing the law of the Sabbath (cf. • Matthew 12:1-2: To pick grain on the Sabbath day and the criticism of the Pharisees. through a field of grain.It may be helpful to know that in the time of Jesus, the vendredi 19 juillet 2013 - Évangile Évangile de Jésus Christ selon saint Matthieu (12, 1-8) - En ce temps-là, Jésus passait, un jour de sabbat, à travers les champs de blé, et ses disciples eurent faim; ils se mirent à arracher des épis et à les manger. So many of them! de la Asunción, Huesca, Spain,As Carmelites We live our life of allegiance to Jesus Christ and to serve Him faithfully with a pure heart and a clear conscience through a commitment to seek the face of the living God (the contemplative dimension of life), through prayer, through fraternity, and through service (,All of these we live under the protection, inspiration and guidance of Mary, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, whom we honor as "our Mother and sister. Matthew 12:1-8 - NIV: At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. Les épis de blé et le sabbatV. I say to you, something greater than the temple is here. Mt 11:30. Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath and are innocent? On the Sabbath day, in the Temple of Jerusalem, the priests worked very much more than the other days of the week, because they had to sacrifice the animals for the sacrifices; they had to clean, sweep, carry burdens, kill the animals, etc. Évangile de Jésus Christ selon saint Matthieu 9,1-8. In today’s Gospel, Jesus and his disciples were walking What is the image of God behind all these preconceptions, behind all these norms and prohibitions?To know the bible in depth can be difficult. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password.At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. Philémon Hébreux Jacques 1 Pierre 2 Pierre.