The Importance of the Sabbath

On one Sabbath Jesus was going through the grain fields and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath? Well the law said you can't harvest grain because that's work, you can’t harvest grain on the Sabbath, that was prohibited. So in his characteristic way, he just ignores the absurdity of this application of the law to make a broader point. This is how religion has intended to see to operate. It's not how it works, but that is the gravitational pull of almost all religious systems.