Faith of Messiah Ancient context. Better questions. Deeper faith. Weekly Reflection · On Rest The taskmaster you carried home. A few days ago, I was thinking about a strange detail in Matthew 12. What were Pharisees doing in a Galilean wheat field on the Sabbath? Jesus and his disciples were walking through the grain. The disciples got hungry, plucked a few heads, and ate. Somehow, religious leaders saw it and immediately confronted Jesus. Maybe they had been following him. Maybe Matthew...