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 the Pharisees complain that his disciples are not adhering to the strict requirements of the law as they haven´t washed their hands properly before eating, and Jesus goes onto explain it is what comes out of a man that defiles him, not what goes in. 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.