said, 66 This is my beloved Son.» “ You study the Scriptures,»
he said, u because you think they will save you; and they tell of
me. Why do you not come to me and learn what I can teach
you? I know why you do not come. It is because your hearts
are not full of the love of God. How can you believe?» After
he had said all he wanted to, he left them.
They did not dare to touch him then, but they did not forgive
him, and they made up their minds that they would watch him,
and see if they could not find something for which they could
punish him. It seems very strange that they would not listen
to him, and believe what he taught. Probably if they had been
better men they would have been willing to listen, and would have
learned to love the man who was always doing so much for others.
But they liked to be the rulers of the people, and they were afraid
that if Jesus were allowed to teach, the people would leave them,
and they would lose their power. They were jealous.
THE MINISTRY OF THE CHRIST
57
One Sabbath not long after this, Jesus and his disciples were
walking through a field of grain in Galilee. The disciples were
hungry, and as they
walked along they
picked some of the grain
and ate it. It was per¬
fectly right for them to
pick this grain, for the
Jewish law said that
any one could pick the
ears with his hands
if he wanted to eat
them, but that no one
must cut the grain with
the sickle and take it
home unless it was his.
Wherever Jesus
went now some of the
Pharisees followed to
see what he was about.
So when these men saw
the friends of Jesus eat¬
ing the grain they said to him, “ Your disciples are doing what
is not right on the Sabbath.»
If the law gave the people the right to pick the grain in this
way, why was there any reason why the Pharisees should blame
them? You remember that these Jews were very strict about
some things, although in other ways they were very bad. One
of the things they were very strict about was the keeping of the
Sabbath. Their law said that they must not work on the Sab¬
bath, and they said that rubbing off the grain with the hands was,
work. So they did not allow it to be done on the Sabbath. They
The Disciples plucking Grain
58
A CHILD’S STORY OF THE LIFE OF CHRIST
could not blame Jesus for breaking the law, because he had not
picked any of the grain. But they blamed him for allowing his
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