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Sermons For The Middle Third Of The Pentecost Season
The most powerful questions Jesus asked were those that made the persons being addressed raise further questions. These occasions created for him opportunities to do his best teaching. The incident Mark tells us about in our text today was just another encounter between Jesus and the scribes and Pharisees. They were always watching him and his disciples in order to find a cause celebre by which to cast this new movement into an unfavorable light. They were legalists and an issue was given to them ready-made when they saw the disciples partaking of a meal without washing their hands.