Luke 6:4 “how he went into the house of God, took and ate the showbread, and also gave some to those with him, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat?”    Jesus always excelled at reminding the Jewish leaders of the actual pages of Scripture. It challenged their traditions on a…

Luke 6:3 “But Jesus answering them said, “Have you not even read this, what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:”    The Lord Jesus, on several occasions, challenged the Jews to spend more time in the Scriptures. Was this due to a mass ignorance of Biblical knowledge? Yes…

Luke 6:2 “And some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?”    The Pharisees were very strict observers of the law. To them the slightest infraction was to be considered a sin. And, they determined how that such infractions were measured and interpreted.…

Luke 6:1 “Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first that He went through the grainfields. And His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate them, rubbing them in their hands.”    This was likely Shavuot, or Pentecost, at the time of the harvest of wheat. The only allowance for the gathering…

Luke 5:39 “No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.”    Wine is a complicated subject. There are persons who spend their whole lives, and a portion of their fortunes, studying wine. This is why Jesus used this illustration. Like other subjects such as sports, politics,…

Luke 5:38 “But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”    The new direction the church would now take would be poured into the lives of the disciples. They were the proper vehicles for the truth they would receive. Though we may try to understand this in its fullness, the…

Luke 5:37 “And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.”    Jesus did not call His group of disciples from among the religious elite of Israel. And why? It was so hard for them to believe. Paul came…

Luke 5:36 “Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.”    Jesus is explaining here one of the unique truths we…

Luke 5:35 “”But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.”    Jesus was speaking of the time coming very soon when He would ascend to the Father after the resurrection. The early Christian church did practice fasting. And, it has been practiced…

Luke 5:34 “And He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?”    Nobody would imagine that the members of a wedding party would fast. They would be busy with the festivities. In the same way, Jesus’ disciples did not fast at this time because…