# Matthew Chapter 9
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## Summary
Jesus is accused of blasphemy after forgiving the sins of the Paralytic man and restoring his ability to walk. Jesus calls Matthew and is then hanging out with tax collectors and 'sinners' and his disciples are questioned by the Pharasee's. Jesus responds with parables. Jesus raises a young ruler's daughter from the dead. Jesus heals someone who is mute and all two blind men. Jesus then has pity on the crowd following him and encourages his disciples to pray for labourers to go out into the fields.

## Imagery and Theme's
This passage contains some really interesting juxtaposition. For example the immobility and sins of the paralytic and the righteous exhibition and ideological rigidity of the Pharasee's. There is also the healing of the two blind men and the one mute and the raising of the dead girl. A sense in which the presence of the son of man is life giving. Where even the leven of the Pharasee's does not hold sway. The establishment has concluded that Jesus is invested in the dark arts as a mechanism to win the attention of the people. This demonstrates just how worn the old wineskin has become and unfit it is for the new wine Jesus brings.

Matthew revisits what Mark has aformentioned in [Chapter 7](http://tilde.club/~chortle/log.php?type=faith&year=2022#mark-chapter-7). Here we see Jesus criticising the old wineskin highlighting that the old model and way of thinking simply wont work here. If the new wine that God provides in this situation is to be preserved a new model is needed. This is a pattern sadly replicated time and again by the church. On matters of taste and order the Church has divided. I suspect on each occasion these passages in Matthew an Mark have likely be wielded as justification. Is this what Jesus intended? It is a difficult question to answer. Each successive generation is tasked within identifying the mechanism by which to express and reduplicate the pattern. Perhaps it is nostalgia, comfort, culture, context or some other reason that lead to such divisions. Worse still might it even be our own ability to recognise the temporal dimension of the paradigm to which we cling? To miss that God has moved on from this place.