1. Our Lord declared, "The Sabbath was made for man."
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(And He said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Mark 2:27).
*Mark, in writing down these words of our Lord years after the cross, felt no necessity to qualify His words with the comment that the Sabbath was made for man only until the cross.
*Mark, in writing down these words of our Lord years after the cross, felt no necessity to qualify His words with the comment that the Sabbath was made for man only until the cross.
Q: In the absence of that comment, what would Mark's readers naturally deduce from that statement by Christ?
2. Matthew records what Christ said regarding it being lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.
2. Matthew records what Christ said regarding it being lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.
(How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. Matt. 12:12).
*Now if the Sabbath law were abolished at the cross, how important that Matthew should add immediately a comment to explain to the early Christians who might read his gospel in some far corner of the world, that the whole discussion of the lawfulness of this or that on the Sabbath day is merely a bit of history, for the Sabbath law was abolished shortly after Christ made His statement!
3. When Christ described to His disciples the destruction that was to come on Jerusalem and told them that they were to flee when the Roman armies drew near, He added, "But pray you that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day."
*Now if the Sabbath law were abolished at the cross, how important that Matthew should add immediately a comment to explain to the early Christians who might read his gospel in some far corner of the world, that the whole discussion of the lawfulness of this or that on the Sabbath day is merely a bit of history, for the Sabbath law was abolished shortly after Christ made His statement!
3. When Christ described to His disciples the destruction that was to come on Jerusalem and told them that they were to flee when the Roman armies drew near, He added, "But pray you that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day."
(But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: Matt. 24:20).
*Cestius Gallus temporarily besieged Jerusalem in 66 AD, but 35 years after the crucifixion, there is the Sabbath day, standing in distinction as God’s holy day of rest, just as always."
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*Cestius Gallus temporarily besieged Jerusalem in 66 AD, but 35 years after the crucifixion, there is the Sabbath day, standing in distinction as God’s holy day of rest, just as always."
F.D. Nichols/F7
