It wasn’t that He did not support the observance of the Sabbath (we will see that He did), it was that they had tied the restrictions regarding the Sabbath so tightly that the good purpose of the Sabbath was being lost. Jesus confronted these regulations throughout His ministry. It was like writing a 200 page piece of legislation that outlawed talking on your cell phone while driving your car! Jewish leaders were concerned about obeying God’s law (a good thing) and so they developed a large body of regulations that clearly defined what constituted work (thus violating the Sabbath) and what wasn’t considered work (this was not such a good thing). One of these controversies in Jesus day related to the observance of the Sabbath, or the day of rest. Many of the controversies that bring conflict in the church are caused by tunnel vision. We have great tunnel vision in our view of ourselves and our behavior (we see what we want to see) and we have tunnel vision oftentimes in our faith. These assumptions come from your tunnel vision. Think about it, if you see a bunch of motorcycles going down the road in a group you may tend to make certain assumptions about the people who are riding that have nothing to do with the actual people involved.
We can have tunnel vision when it comes to politics, when it comes to relating to people who are getting help from the government, and even when it comes to people who are materially blessed. Tunnel vision is when you see only a narrow image (as through a tunnel) rather than seeing the whole picture thus gaining perspective.
These areas of bias create what is called “tunnel vision”. Every one of us has certain prejudices or biases that are a part of our life.
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