REFLECTION:
When we see movies about royal families, they appear lifeless like robots and puppets. They are slaves to people trying to protect and preserve the throne’s grace and dignity. Palace managers appear like the actual rulers of the palace and even of the kingdom. They can scold a queen for not wearing an appropriate coat. They can cancel a king’s meeting with poor subjects if they sense threat to health and security. The monarch is not free to function as king or queen. The same anxiety inflicts the Pharisees in their effort to protect and preserve God’s dignity. Even if they give in to the claim that Jesus is one with God, they would dictate what a God-like behavior is. Hence, Jesus’ free and creative manifestation of God’s compassion is blocked by artificial measures like Sabbath rituals. Jesus insists God is far greater than all these regulations and rituals.
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