".....text in the New Testament which speaks of the first day of the week.If the first day of the week, or Sunday, is the Sabbath, surely we shall find the facts stated in some one of those texts.
1 In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other
Mary to see the sepulchre.
Mark 16
1 And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint Him.
2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher at the rising of the sun.
We do find something about the Sabbath, however.
Read again the texts quoted above.
• The one from Matthew tells us that the women came to
the sepulchre immediately after the Sabbath, on the first
day of the week.
• In Mark we are told that they came “very early in the
morning the first day of the week,” but not until “the
Sabbath was past.”
the sepulchre immediately after the Sabbath, on the first
day of the week.
• In Mark we are told that they came “very early in the
morning the first day of the week,” but not until “the
Sabbath was past.”
The two texts show us that the first day of the week immediately follows the Sabbath; and the last one shows verse plainly that no matter how early one arises in the morning of the first day of the week, the Sabbath will already be past."
E.J. Waggoner
