Sabbath by healing and allowing his disciples to harvest grain. When Jesus disagreed with the traditional interpretations of the law, he provocatively did things to indicate this and directly taught so as to draw attention to it—and such deviations from the norm drive the conflicts we see in the Gospels that ultimately leave Jesus hanging on a cross. The silence of Jesus on the issue of homosexuality is powerful, because if he had opposed the Jewish law on this point we surely would have heard about