As we’ve already seen (here and here), Jesus has quite a few run-ins with religious leaders on the Sabbath. One recurring theme that we see in a handful of these dust-ups is that somebody is ailing—physically broken—and in need of…

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The Sabbath run-in that we looked at in our last post is paralleled in Matthew. Matthew adds a little more detail about what Jesus said to those who were confronting him. After seemingly using David to justify his ethical violations,…

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Many years, but only a couple Bible chapters after our last post, we see one of Jesus’ first Sabbath throw-downs. While walking along with his disciples, some of Jesus’ students felt a little rumbly in their tumbly. So, as they…

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Did you know that Jesus lived from age 2-30? Well, of course, you did. But does your intellectual knowledge of Jesus living from 2-30 shape your vision of his humanity? The Orthodox Christian doctrine says that Jesus was fully God and…

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