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The many controversies that Jesus faces in the Gospel are often the occasion for a revelation for him. He never remains captive in an exchange of witticisms on religious norms and practices. Paying taxes to Caesar, going to lunch with a publican, allowing divorce and today: eating a few ears of wheat on a Sabbath… In all these exchanges, Jesus very often switches from doing to the mystery of being and of his own being, divine and human.
So Jesus takes up this episode from the Old Testament, when David and his men, entering the Temple, out of necessity ate the bread of the offering. But if Jesus recounts this event – which is in fact exceptional – it is to forcefully affirm “I tell you: there is something greater here than the Temple” and to conclude a little further: “The Son of Man is master of the Sabbath. »
Thus, in the course of a quarrel, Jesus reveals himself to be greater than the Temple, this very place where in the faith of Israel, God inhabits the world. It is now in Jesus that God has pitched his tent here on earth and we must approach him. It is from him that we must reread the law and the precepts, from his desire for mercy and conversion.
Other readings: Is 38, 1-6.21-22.7-8; Ctq Isaiah 38
