The readings at this time of year cover Jesus' miracles and teaching. This is where we meet the Jesus of the every day, the Jesus of farmers and fisherman, who told stories of lost sheep, a man beaten up by the roadside, a ponsy landowner, fishers of men, treasure buried in a field, seed sown by the wayside, or, as in today's gospel, where he goes to eat a meal with the leader of the Pharisees on the sabbath and observes how people like to take the best seats. Our God is a God of the people, not in far off Jerusalem, but walking every day through the fields, and along the shores, of Galilee.