<p>6:4 <i>How he entered the house of God- </i>For non-Levites to enter the Sanctuary was also not 'lawful', quite apart from eating the bread which only the priests could lawfully eat. This prepares the way for the Lord's later parable about God urging unclean street people to 'enter His house' because Israel had rejected the invitation (the same words are used- Lk. 14:23). The psychological magnitude of the Lord's new system of thinking is hard to appreciate. Non-Levites could now enter it- and even the worst of the Gentiles. But the magnitude of the new thinking in Christ for anyone, not least secular people of the 21st Century, is no less.</p><p><i>And took and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?</i>- The Lord defended the non-observant Judaism of the twelve as being due to their joy that He, the bridegroom, was with them (Lk. 5:33,34). When they &lsquo;ground corn&rsquo; on the Sabbath, the Lord defended them to their critics by saying that they were like David&rsquo;s men eating the showbread. Those guys were just walking through a cornfield rubbing ears together as their manner was, as they had done on many a Sabbath day, but not realizing that this time there was some Scribe out with his binocular vision scrutinizing them. They surely weren&rsquo;t doing it because their minds were on the incident of David&rsquo;s men eating the showbread. The Lord had asked them to obey the Scribes, who sat in Moses&rsquo; seat, over this kind of trivia. But He doesn&rsquo;t rebuke them. Rather, He defends them to others, imputing far more spiritual perception to them than they had. &nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Gave it to those with him&quot; recalls how the Lord blessed the bread and gave it to those with <i>Him</i>. He was turning the ordinary bread of the people into the shewbread of the sanctuary. Clearly the Lord is suggesting that His ragtag crowd of disciples and questionable ministering women were the new priesthood of a new Israel.</p>