This is the Bamaapodcast with Marty Salman. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we continue our

verse by verse examination of the Gospel of Matthew by dealing with the Sabbath and rabbinical arguments

surrounding Torah. These next two episodes are as reminded why I never have done verse by verse

because there are some stories that I'm just not as prepared for. So it was always nice to just

kind of skip those and go on to the ones where I was really solid. But we've made a commitment to

our listeners, dang it. So I think we've got plenty to talk about in this episode. I'm pretty

this episode titled Donkeys and Rabbis and boy that there's a lot tied up in those two words.

I am pretty sure we're gonna have plenty to say. I think maybe when I don't have things to say,

I talk even more so. That is probably true. I'm noticing that about my son. My son is at the doctor's

office. He had to get, we were called by the nurse. They said your kids are short one shot. They

need to get a shot. Oh, okay. Forgot about that apparently. So I went in to do that. My son is

nervous. This all get out and he is just chatty, Kathy in the doctor's office.

Nervous talker. Let's get it from me, apparently. All right, Brent, we are in Matthew 12. We're

gonna do the first half of Matthew 12. I think that's 21 verses we're gonna do. How much you,

how much you read it's the first eight or so. At that time Jesus went through the grain fields

on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them.

When the Pharisees saw this, they said, him, look, your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the

Sabbath. All right, I'm gonna let you get eight verses in. We're gonna cut that short right there.

So that seems pretty ambitious. A lot of context swirling around about this. So they're walking

through the field on Shabbat, which is totally fine as long as they're, you know, not outside the

song is there within that mile to two mile radius that was determined in their rabbinical world to

be within the city limits. They can be walking around as much as they want. Nothing wrong with that.

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