How Jesus Lived: Jesus Rested
Pastor Fletcher begins our new sermon series, preaching from Matthew 12:1-8. Discussion points: We have to prioritize our life because we don’t have time to do it all, Jesus declares himself the true king and priest over the Sabbath, rest begins with a heart of trust.
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Scripture reader: [Matthew 12:1-8] At that time, Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath." He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry and those who were with him? How he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the law how on the Sabbath, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? I tell you something greater than the temple is here, and if you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless, for the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."
This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
Preacher: Have you ever noticed how there are many people who claim to be Christians, and yet their life does not reflect the savior in which they claim to follow. Yes. In fact, it seems as though many people live a life that's antithetical to the way of Christ, though they claim to be followers of Christ. They may use the the teachings of Jesus to justify further isolation from the world around them, instead of reaching out in love. Though they claim to follow Jesus, they do not walk generously as Christ walks, but instead, they seek to accumulate wealth, more and more. Instead of living a life of humility. They seek notoriety and fame, oftentimes in the name of Jesus. I love watching Instagram reels where they just make fun of people who say, for for the name of Jesus, I want to be a millionaire who is reaching the famous and I'm just able to to go viral for Jesus, and it just seems something off about that.
In fact, when you look at Jesus, it doesn't seem like he's too concerned about going viral, so to speak. Today we're starting a new series called How Jesus lived. And at our church, we almost always are preaching through books of the Bible, and we're going to be getting back to that in November, we will be going to be starting a series on the book of Hebrews. But between now and then we want to spend some time in the Gospels, like learning from Christ again. It's been a little while since we've been in the Gospels and so. We're going to be choosing a selection of passages through the Gospels that illustrate different ways in which Jesus lived his life. And this is so important for us because if we desire to be Christ followers, we must know how Christ lived.
And so today we're going to start with this first sermon on this passage. About Jesus being Lord of the Sabbath. But before we jump in, I just want to give you one quote that I think is very, very important. It's an important caveat, because as we talk about Jesus being the way looking at the way that he lived, it would be easy for us to look at Jesus as a moral. example for the way that we also should live our life. And that is true. Jesus is a moral example, but it would be easy for these sermons to slide into what we call moralism or what we call religion, empty religion, where it's just do the things that Jesus did. That is not it, and that's gonna come up more and more every single week as we preach that. That is not what I'm preaching to you.
I just need to highlight this one wonderful quote from the reformer Martin Luther, so that you can see what I'm saying. He said the chief article and foundation of the gospel. Is that before you take Christ as an example, you accept and recognize him as a gift. The chief article and foundation of the gospel is that before you take Christ as an example, you accept and recognize him as a gift. We're gonna be just hold that in your minds. I don't want to just force you into the image of Christ without receiving the gift that is Jesus. But that's going to be immensely clear as I preach these messages. So with that being said, let's dive in.
I'm going to start with something I never do, but I think that you guys might be into a visual representation. So let me gather my items here. I've actually told this story without using the visuals, and I don't think it was as powerful, and it was 3 years ago. So part of the benefit of doing church in Boston is that, you know, half the people have moved in the past 3 years. All right. So, can everybody see me? I'm kind of tall. OK. I'll just bring it up here. Don't fall. OK. I ran into that. This might not work, um. I think I'm good. OK, so this is a famous business school illustration. You have a jar And you have, you have rocks that go in rocks here.
And so the business school illustration goes like this, OK? That your life is like a jar. Has anybody ever heard this one before? Have you seen this one before? OK, well, you're gonna get it again, OK. reruns, so you, you have important things in your life. Important things. These, the bigger the rock, the more important it is in your life, but also maybe the more time consuming it is in your life. Stuff like family time, like different aspects of your job, things that are very important for you. But then you have these little dopamine hits that are the little rocks, OK? These are all the things on your to do list that just kinda feel good to check them off. But may not be that productive. It's stuff that probably needs to get done, but it might not be productive. But here's the thing, if you're anything like me, you want to do like all of these first because it just feels so good to knock them out, you know. So then you're just knocking them all out, you might drop one, and you just continue and continue.
But if you do it that way, the problem is that you'll never get the big rocks in your life. Don't break glass, um. You'll never get the big rocks to all satisfyingly fit in. They just won't, not all the rocks will fit in. And so the business illustration goes, that if you desire to have all of your life to fit into your jar. You need to do what? Put the big rocks in first, right? And if you put the big rocks in there first, and I, I actually practiced this before I did it, and I know that you kind of need to do a few of the little ones also. That, that checks out though, you know. It's like big thing, big thing, dopamine hit. OK, I need to, I need to do something that feels satisfying here. And if you do that, do it a little bit by a little bit, such as this. I'm dropping them everywhere. I'm sorry that we're cleaning up. You're gonna get. It to where it can all fit in the jar in a much more satisfying kind of way. It's a wonderful illustration. Oh, thank you.
So, so the business school adage goes that if you want everything in your life that's important to fit. You have to do the big things first. And in my case, you sprinkle a few of the small things in there as you go. Because I probably bought small rocks that were too big, honestly. Um. Here's the problem with this illustration. I don't have this many rocks. I have this many more. Thank you. And so, I don't care how I organize this jar, this number of rocks are not going into this jar. Like, I have too many responsibilities to do, and I'm just gonna drop the ball. I just can't handle it all.
Does anybody resonate with this? Where you have just a little bit too much, and it's like, I don't care how well I organize my life. This is good, OK? Helps me. I, I am helped by this. It's like, OK, I have to do the important things. But at the same time, I'm gonna have to choose. And here's the unfair part, because I'm a Christian, my jar is 87% the size of everyone else's, because I take a day off every week. I Sabbath, 1/7 of my week. I'm not doing anything. So therefore, it's just like even more rocks I can't fit in. Do you feel this? The Sabbath commandment. Is a really obnoxious one, is it not? I mean, sure, we love it. I'm not supposed to say that, it's sacrilegious or whatever. But when you're trying to excel in your career, when you're trying to finish a study program, when you're trying to make it in life, it is annoying for all of your peers to have more time than you do. At least it feels that way. All right, I'm gonna vanquish this. Hopefully, it doesn't go anywhere. Oh, I haven't, thank you so much. I appreciate it. This is perfect. We'll just leave it right here. Thank you.
All right, so as you observe the life of Jesus, one thing that you will notice. As though he had all the power of the universe at his fingertips, he did not see it as something to be grasped, but instead took on the limitations of humanity, and that meant that Jesus rested. That even Jesus had to prioritize how he spent his life, that he rested. In fact, we see Jesus doing this all the time. Jesus is a big fan of naps. Can I get an amen? Anybody else in here, a big fan of naps? Yeah, today we have some people napping at home, do we not? It is raining right now. Hopefully we have no one napping in the room. In fact, Jesus would sometimes take naps. If you are napping in the room. Jesus also would take naps at inopportune times from time to time. We read the one story where Jesus is out on the boat with his friends in the middle of the sea and a great storm comes up, and they're all freaking out trying to keep the the the boat from sinking. And where do they find Jesus? But taking a nap. And so they wake him up and he just says, I've got this.
You also see Jesus see the need for vacations. You do. You see Jesus see the need for vacations. At one time, the disciples have been scattered all throughout the land, teaching, healing diseases, all of that type of thing. And when they return, what does Jesus say to them? Mark chapter 6 verse 31, he says this, come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while, for many were coming and going, and had no leisure even to eat. Well, that sounds like a vacation, does it not? Come away yourselves. To a desolate place and rest a while. That sounds so nice to so many of us. Unfortunately, a crowd of 5000 followed them to that place, and then Jesus had to cook dinner for them all.
Jesus prioritized rest, but he was also known as a Sabbath breaker to the religious leaders of the day. And today's story is an occasion when Jesus broke the Sabbath laws. But what Jesus has to say about Sabbath in this little passage gives me, as a man with too many rocks for this limited jar that the Lord has given me, so much hope and peace and joy. I think that what he teaches us about the Sabbath is something that can bring us each life. And joy and peace. So let's dive into what he's saying in our passage today. I'm just gonna walk through it verse by verse as I like to do.
Matthew chapter 12 verse 1. At that time, Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. Now I've never tasted a raw grain, a raw head of grain. Has anybody? I don't know. That's not something that I hear about. I assume it is not as tasty as the refined grain that I'm going to enjoy after service with my post-service bagel, but it is still food, and what they're doing, it makes sense. They're, they're hungry, they're walking through a field, and so they say, here's some food. I'm going to eat it. It makes sense. They're not actually working or doing anything hard. They're just grabbing a a a piece of grain and eating it.
But when the Pharisees saw it, verse 2, they said to him, Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath. Now the Pharisees, we know them, they're familiar in Scripture. The Pharisees are the religious leaders of the day. And the they're oftentimes the the foil in the in the Bible, they're oftentimes the people that Jesus is most critiquing, which gives us peace because Jesus critiqued the religious leaders so much, and we also see the need to critique our religious leaders from time to time, some of you more than others, from my experience, but.
But it, it, it's an important thing that we understand that they were also just very zealous about the law. That they weren't known as bad guys at the time, that they were kind of like the religious leaders, the good guys. And at the time, the religious laws were the same as the laws of the state. And so in some ways, they were enforcing laws like a, like a police officer may enforce a law. And at this time, the Jewish people took Sabbath. Very seriously. They weren't allowed to do much. They weren't allowed to walk very far that carry anything or even light a fire.
Even to this day, that in Israel and many other Jewish communities, they're still very serious about the Sabbath. They don't use their phones on the Sabbath cause they see it as lighting a fire. They don't cook on the Sabbath because of the same lighting fire thing. They don't drive on the Sabbath because lighting fire, OK? In fact, I, I talked with some people that used to live in Israel, and they said that if that the religious people do not drive on Saturdays, and in fact, if you're driving on Saturday, there's a chance you might come across an ultra orthodox group and they might throw rocks at your car. So you might, that might deter you from driving on a Saturday in Israel.
So how does Jesus critique respond to the critique from the religious leaders? He responds by giving a master class on the Sabbath, just a master class. It's wonderful. I've been a Christian for a long time, a pastor for a long time. I've never preached on this passage, and it is beautiful what he does. He decimates the the Pharisees with his depth of knowledge about the Sabbath. Verse 3, he said to them, Have you not read what David did when he was hungry? And those who were with him, how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the presence? Which it was not lawful for him to eat or nor for those who are with him, but only for the priest.
So Jesus is citing this obscure story from 1 Samuel 21, classic Jesus, finding an obscure Old Testament story. And in this story, David is on the run from Saul. And at that point, Saul wants to kill David and David comes along, the priest, and he's hungry, and he asked the priest for food, but the only food that the priest has is what's called the bread of the presence. Now the bread of the presence has deep symbolic meaning to the people of Israel. Ever since they first built the tabernacle, what the priest would do every single week is bake 12 loaves of bread, and they would place all 12 loaves of bread before the altar of God. And these 12 loaves were to represent the 12 tribes of Israel, and they were to represent that God sustains the 12 tribes of Israel. And every single week they would take the bread and replace it with fresh bread.
And so when David comes to the priest, and he says, Give me something to eat. I'm starving. I'm on the run for my life. The priest says, All I have is the bread of presence, but, but I'll give it to you. And by giving him the bread of presence, the priest is saying, You are the true king. You have authority over me. You can tell me to give that bread to you, and I will give it to you. You are the true king. And so, Here we see Jesus referencing the same story. And with this story, he's not just saying, look, people matter more than rules, OK? That's how I've always read it. He's saying people matter more than rules, OK? David said, I'm hungry, the priest gave him something to eat. No, what he's saying is far deeper than that.
What Jesus is saying is, I am the new David, I am the true king. If I said it, I can do it. If I said my disciples can eat, they can eat. I'm in charge here. And then he continues, he says, or have you not read in the law on the how on the Sabbath, the priests in the temple profane the name of the Sabbath and are guiltless? Now this one also, I've never really thought about it too much, but what Jesus is saying is that though the Sabbath is a day of rest for all of those in Israel. There is a small population of people who do not rest on the Sabbath, and they're called priests. In fact, the Sabbath is one of the most busy days of the week for the priests. The priests are baking the bread, the priests are offering extra sacrifices. They're busy, and yet they're guiltless. They're not breaking the Sabbath, so to speak. They're doing what is required of them. And so here Jesus is again saying not only that this was required, but he's saying, I am not only the true king, I am the true priest. I'm doing what is required today on the Sabbath.
He continues to up the ante. He says verse 6, I tell you something greater than the temple is here. Now what is Jesus saying here? They might not have gotten that, but we understand from the full context of scripture that Jesus understood himself to be the new temple. The temple is where the presence of God dwelt on earth, and so Jesus is saying something greater than the temple is here. It's the presence of God in the form of a man living among you, right here. I'm the temple of God, but better, the full presence of God right before you.
Verse 7, and if you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would have not condemned the guiltless. Now, what's Jesus doing? He's shifting genres once again. He's quoted the he's talked about the king, he's talked about the priest, now he's talking about the prophets, and he's quoting from the prophet Hosea. And this is the 2nd time he's quoted this exact passage. It's one of his favorite passages in the book of Matthew. He quotes it before and he quotes it now, and each time he's throwing it back at the face of the Pharisees, saying, you don't understand what your own scriptures have to say.
And so in essence, Jesus is saying, not only am I the true king, not only am I the true priest, I am the true prophet, and you don't understand the prophets as they are meant to be understood. I am the fulfillment of the Old Testament promises of a leader is what Jesus is saying. And then he just punctuates it, verse 8, he says, for the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. He's saying, I'm not only am I in charge of the Sabbath, but I satisfy the Sabbath requirements, that only in me will you find the rest for your soul that you so long for in Sabbath and that every Sabbath has pointed forward towards since the beginning of Sabbaths. That Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath.
Now, this story is so this is so important. This story, Matthew 12, your Bible is organized, and Matthew 12 is in the middle of the book of Matthew, one of the the pinnacle parts of it. It's like very intentionally placed here, but right before Matthew 12, Is a passage that many, if you call this church home, you should be familiar with this passage. Because at the end of Matthew 11, Jesus explains something about himself, and then this is the story that illustrates what he explained about himself. It's so important to see this there, because Jesus is using this story to explain. This call from the two verses 3 verses before Matthew 12, it says, Come to me all who are who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart. And you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
So Jesus, he doesn't just tell us, hey, you need to rest, OK? I can stand here, all of you, OK? Everyone here, you need to rest. That is a true statement. But Jesus goes so much farther than that. What he says is, I am the rest that you are seeking. Come to me And experience rest is what Jesus says. This is the invitation for you, church, that you come to Christ and experience rest. Only through a relationship with Christ can you have the true rest that your souls long for. As Augustine said. You have made us for yourself, oh Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
So friends, you are not tired, heavy laden, weary. Simply because you're working too hard. But there's work behind the work. There's a reason why you're working so hard. There's a work behind the work that says, if I don't do this, I'll never be good enough. I'll never prove myself. No one will ever notice me. I won't seem good at what I do. And so it drives us, it drives us in many ways, in a good way towards ambition. But the gospel says, come to me all you are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. The message of Christianity is that you don't have to prove yourself, that Jesus' life is sufficient to prove you. Innocent before God, clean cleansed by him, guiltless and free, that you can experience the rest that your soul soul longs for. Friends, The reason why you don't Sabbath isn't because you have too much to do. We all have too much to do. The reason you don't Sabbath isn't because you just have to keep getting it all done. The reason you don't Sabbath is because you don't trust God. That's why. Sabbath is an intentional spiritual practice that says, I am a limited human being that cannot possibly hold these rocks, even if it was a 7th bigger than what it was, all the rocks aren't going in. And so I have to intentionally allow myself to trust God today.
Let me give you a, a story that illustrates this from my life. A couple of weeks ago, my family went to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park. Beautiful places. Anybody ever been there? It's a wonderful spot. Yeah, thank you for the hands, my own daughter, handwrit. Hand high, she's been there, um. We rented a camper van, which was delightful. We just, we stayed in 6 different campsites across 6 different nights and saw everything that there was to see. All the boiling mud pots and, and geysers and lots of family memories that were made, in that place. But when people ask me what the best part of staying in the national parks was, what I always say isn't Old Faithful or the Grand Canyon or the Yellowstone, or the, the wildlife, all the bison and the wolves and everything that we saw. It was the no cell service. Can I get an amen? Woo woo. All right. Then no cell service.
I'll tell you what, we were without cell service for 6 days, and when I got back to Somerville, it felt like we had been gone for 6 weeks. I was like, this place is totally different. I don't know what's happening here. It was great. I did not hear a a wink of news for 6 days. It was wonderful. And the world was falling apart at the same rate as it was before I left, you know, so it, it didn't even matter. Here was the difficult part though. The Sunday, we left on Monday morning very early. The day before that we had a, a candidate for our worship director position here, Jared Cooper. You guys probably remember remember Jared. He did a great job. We all loved him.
We offered him a job on Monday morning like as I was leaving. When we land where near the parks, you have a little bit of cell service, and I got a message from one of our elders, Mark, saying, hey, we talked to Jared. He's not sure. He's on the fence. Here's some of his reasons. So I just start shooting them back texts, like 3, like more money, send them more money. And and every one goes undelivered. I'm out of service, out of control. I can't, I'm just stressed about this for a moment. Normally if I was in Boston, I'd be on the phone with Jared, I'd be like, come on man, you know you wanna live here? Like it's great. Like I'd be trying to manipulate the whole situation, but literally, there is nothing I can do. I am off the grid. And so what does it leave me to do? But trust God. That he's better, that he's got it.
In fact, I spent some time in the scripture. I read the passage that Mark actually preached that week, Psalm 73. Surely God is good to Israel, and he just impressed upon me that God is good to us, that he loves us, that he cares about us more than I care about us, and that he's got good plans for us. And good plans for me. It was the same thing that the Lord impressed when when Jared was leading worship a couple weeks ago, I felt a strong impression from the Lord that God wants good for us. And I was like, I don't know if it's this, I don't know if it's Jared, I don't know what's gonna happen. I just know that God wants good for us. I felt very confident in that, and I got that same impression from Jesus. I went and I went to the scriptures and I met with Jesus, and he communicated, I want good for you.
And so I just let it go. There's nothing I can do about it. I just trust God and I enjoyed the rest of my, it was at the beginning of the week too, you know, just like, oh, so much anxiety. I just, I let it completely go and I just trusted God with the rest of the week and I Sabbath. I truly rested. It was joyous. Now when we got back to town. We got news that he was gonna make it work out and that he accepted the offer, and we're gonna be excited to have him. Yeah. So Jared, Jared will be starting sometime. He'll be here actually a few weeks between now and then, but starting for sure in November, if not a few weeks before that. And so, and he's planning on coming a couple of times between now and then. So we're just really glad to have them. But the reality is that I, I didn't need that to for God to still be good. That he meant good for us, and I was trusting him with it ever step every step of the way.
Now I just wanna end with a few words of practical instruction. Sabbath begins with a heart of trust. Let me just say that. Sabbath begins with a heart of trust. You will not Sabbath if you do not have a heart of trust. It is not just a discipline that is good for you, like eating beets, OK? My wife claims that she likes beets. There's no way. No one likes beets. But they're good for you, and so you eat them. I don't, but some people do. Sabbath is not simply something that's good for you that you need to do. It is in a spiritual practice of trust. You will enjoy Sabbath. It is a good thing to do. It is enjoyable, but it is hard to get yourself to do it. No one finds it easier. Everyone has a hard time putting their work aside. It's actually stretching your trust in God that he is sovereign.
There's a book called 4000 Weeks Time Management for Mortals. It's a secular book. It's great, but the whole premise of the book is this, and it's, it's every time I hear it, it strikes me that humans live an average of 4000 weeks. Shockingly few weeks, is it not? Like that's just like not enough weeks to think about, that you're living, that we live. Shockingly, astoundingly short lives, and he says this, you will settle. You can't become an ultra ultra successful lawyer or artist or politician without first settling on law or art or politics, and therefore deciding to forego the potential rewards of other careers. If you flip between them all, you'll succeed in none of them. Likewise, there's no possibility. of a romantic relationship being truly fulfilling, unless you're willing, at least for a while, to settle for that specific relationship with all of its imperfections, which means spurning the seductive lure of an infinite number of superior imaginary alternatives.
So friends, you will settle. That's just in your life, but also during your week, there is an aspect that you have to settle and say there are things I won't get done, and that is OK. I trust that God's jar is bigger than mine. I trust that he can fit all the rocks in and carry them if I drop them, because when you have a heart of trust, it will empower you to recognize that Jesus is Lord and I'm not. That he is Lord of the Sabbath, and he gives me rest, and that this rhythm of rest is restoring to my soul.
Now it's gonna look different, just practically, it's gonna look different for every person here. Some of you are in your 20s, and so Sabbath might look like sleeping until 120. I am almost 40 years old and I have 3 young children, and Sabbath looks like sleeping until 7:30, reading a book. Cook for 30 minutes and then making pancakes for my family before I go hit the gym. Like that's my Sabbath, and it's joyful. I love that. But it's not the same as when I was in my 20s. And you just have to embrace what Sabbath looks like in every stage of life. And, and also that some of you just need to take a step back and be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, I've been trying to live a 20-something Sabbath and then getting frustrated every time, and I'm just in a new stage of life, and I need to embrace that.
And we just have to continue to adopt and adapt the way, but I'll tell you what, my kids are older than they used to be. So Sabbath used to be wake up at 6 a.m., and watch Blippy on TV with my youngest kids, um. Now, yeah, big blippy fans back there. but now, it's, let my kids watch TV by themselves while I sleep in until 7:30. OK, so it's, it has changed, and with every stage of life, it continues to change and it will, it will forever. I've had to build boundaries for my Sabbath. I don't check my email on my Sabbath. I don't plan church events on Saturdays because I'm Sabbathing, like very rarely, maybe once in the past 5 years we've had an event on Saturday, and people are like, why don't we do more stuff on Saturdays? Cause I don't want to. I mean, that's as simple as it is. Like, we do stuff on Sundays, and we, it's good. I, and I, like, I've been the only full-time employee up until, two months from now, and, it, it's just a lot to handle, to do all that by myself, so.
Friends, I want you to evaluate your lives. Do you rest? Why not? Why don't you rest? What does rest look like for you? I hope it's not just binging seven episodes of like old Gilmore Girls TV. I mean, that might be restful. I don't know why I said Gilmore Girls. I was just like 7 episodes of TV and, anyways, um. But I do hope that you have a pattern of rest somewhere in your life. Jesus came to give us life, to give you rest, but most importantly to give him, to give you himself. He is the Lord of the Sabbath, and you will only receive the rest that you long for when you come to him. So would you come to him now? This is an opportunity for you to give him your heart, for you to say, I trust you, Jesus, once again. To be to learn this truth over and over, that you have to trust him. You cannot fit it all in. That he is sufficient and he cares for you.
In just a moment, we're going to practice the sacred meal that reminds us reminds us of this provision. And we practice it every week because we need to be reminded every week that he is enough. That he, he's he sustains us, that we have some substance in him. And we call it communion. Some people call it Eucharist or the Lord's Supper. And if you're a Christian here today, we invite you to participate in this meal. So if you would join me in standing as we prepare to respond to God and to sing.
Father, we thank you for your word this morning. We pray that you would restore our souls, that those of us who are weary and heavy laden that we might come to you afresh, anew, that you might change us and shape us, that we might look like you, that we might walk like you, but most importantly, that we might rec receive the gift that is the Holy Spirit, the gift that is the life of Christ, the death that we deserve the resurrection that we can never achieve, that we might have life with you. And we Father, we long for the Sabbath of eternity, for the days when our work will be completed, and we'll get to enjoy the fruit of our labor. We ask these things in Christ's name, Amen.