So, you do not understand.... or accept .... that the gathering of sticks is not the issue.

Can you not see that?

The transgression would be the deliberate and willful disobedience..... the issue of sticking the finger up.

I regard a certain amount of hardheadedness as a virtue, but.....Do you really not see that or are you just hard headed to the max?

The tax collector said: “Lord Jesus, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Jesus said he went home “justified.”