Matthew 9:13, 12:7
While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” - Matthew 9:10-13
- Sinners break the law they didn't know about
- Jesus didn't go into the place of sin (nightclub, riot), sinners came to a place of eating and fellowship
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields 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 to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”...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.” - Matthew 12:1-8
- Trespassers break trust when they know better, Jesus explains why the Pharisees should know better.
- God welcomes hungry people to glean on his word, I think his disciples understood this lesson but went over the Pharisees heads.
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