What came to my mind as I was reading these comments was the many, many times that Jesus was critical of the Pharisees for their excessive “rules lawyering” (Lizzie, this old AD&Der was ROFLMAO when I read that). I recall a story that highlights the excessive rules lawyering of Jesus’s day. As I recall, in order to travel anywhere on the Sabbath, one had to repeatedly throw their sandal down the road, retrieve it and throw it again. Jesus said that “Man was not made for the Sabbath, the Sabbath was made for man.”