then how do you reconcile this....given that your position aligns with that of the Sadducees?
[Matthew 23:1-3] Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
***then how do you reconcile this....given that your position aligns with that of the Sadducees?
[Matthew 23:1-3]...***
Simple. Christ was Lord of the Sabbath. He knew that the Pharisees had the legal authority to change laws so told the people to respect the office but not the persons.
Besides Christ knew the rule of the pharisees was about to come to an end.
Mat 23:36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
The onerous laws were the ones Christ was referring to.
Mat 12:1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
Mat 12:2 But when the Pharisees saw [it], they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
They may have been forced to keep a Pharasee feast of first fruits but knew when the REAL one was. Then there was still the Sadusees and their weekend feast of firstfruits, and what is to have kept a farmer from bringing in his first crops at the proper Levitical time? the priests in the Temple could have easily done all three forms of the firstfruits.
I will stay with the Levitical dates for the Feast of Firstfruits.
Luk 24:21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
This day was a SUNDAY as the day before was the weekly Sabbath.