Thank you for your blessing. I got a post and reply mixed up in the meantime. I suspect it was part of a real-time blessing.
Pharisees, scribes, and assorted experts of Jesus' day... nothing got by those folks. They even had their sure proof that not only was Jesus violating the Sabbath, he was making himself equal with God.
Kind of like Orange Man bad.
Oh well, David Seeds are an American Original found in the snack aisle, because people claiming to speak for God have shut down the traditional communication routes.
The employees simply putting food on the shelves are just doing their work, earning an honest paycheck day-to-day.
The scribes? Why do you say so?
Jesus was opposed in the Gospels by the Pharisees as His message was in contradiction to theirs.
The Sadducees opposed Him as He was a political threat. They didn't see him so much as a religious threat.
The Essenes aren't recorded, but if one goes by the Mandaens (who are descendants of descendants of the Essenes imho), they consider him someone who took the credit from John
... nothing got by those folks. They even had their sure proof that not only was Jesus violating the Sabbath, he was making himself equal with God.
Well, Jesus did violate the Pharisee concept of the Sabbath and He did equate Himself with God.