Although many today refer to the Sabbath as Sunday, the Sabbath of the Bible was on Saturday. Even though many think of Sunday as the weekend, most modern calendars show Sunday to be the first day of the week. In the Old Testament, the Jews were commanded to rest on the Sabbath. Since Christians are not under the law (see When the Law was ended ), we are not
commanded to keep it.
Exodus 20:10 |
But
the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God.
In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. |
Matthew 28:1 |
Now after the Sabbath, as the
first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. |
Colossians 2:16,17 |
So
let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a
festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a
shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. |
Mark 3:4,5 |
Then He said to them, "Is it
lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life
or to kill?" But they kept silent. And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other. |
Luke 6:2-5 |
And
some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why are you doing what is
not lawful to do on the Sabbath?" But Jesus answering
them said, "Have you not even read this, what David did when
he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he
went into the house of God, took and ate the showbread, and
also gave some to those with him, which is not lawful for any
but the priests to eat?" And He said to them,
"The Son of Man is also Lord of the
Sabbath." |
Luke 13:14-16 |
But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, "There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day." The Lord then answered him and said, "Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it? So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound -- think of it -- for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?" |
Luke 14:5 |
Then He answered them,
saying, "Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?" |
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