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The Lord of the Sabbath is an expression describing Jesus which appears in all three Synoptic Gospels: Matthew 12:1–8, [1] Mark 2:23–28 [2] and Luke 6:1–5. [3] These sections each relate an encounter between Jesus, his Apostles and the Pharisees , the first of the four " Sabbath controversies".
(Mark 1:21, John 9:16) Jesus is described as giving the Sabbath law its authentic and authoritative interpretation: "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath." (Mark 2:27) With compassion, Christ declares the Sabbath for doing good rather than harm, for saving life rather than killing. (Mark 3:4) [37]
Jesus then says "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath." Thus human needs take precedence over strict observance of the law. Some see this as a radical departure from the Jewish understanding of the law (see also Christianity and Judaism).
The Biblical Hebrew Shabbat is a verb meaning "to cease" or "to rest", its noun form meaning a time or day of cessation or rest. Its Anglicized pronunciation is Sabbath. A cognate Babylonian Sapattu m or Sabattu m is reconstructed from the lost fifth Enūma Eliš creation account, which is read as: "[Sa]bbatu shalt thou then encounter, mid[month]ly".
Seventh-day Protestants regard Sabbath as a day of rest for all mankind and not Israel alone, based on Jesus's statement, "the Sabbath was made for man", [123] and on early-church Sabbath meetings. Additionally some Seventh-day Christians would argue any commandment given to “Israel” ought to be observed by Christians as, through faith in ...
For Catholics, Jesus' teaching that "the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath" [55] means that good works "when the needs of others demand it" can be part of the day of rest. [56] The Catechism offers guidelines on how to observe the Lord's Day, which include attending Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation. [50]
The Sabbath was considered a day of joy, [4] and an occasion for consultation with prophets. [5] Sabbath corporate worship was not prescribed for the community at large, and the Sabbath activities at the shrines were originally a convocation of priests for the purpose of offering divine sacrifices, with family worship and rest being centered in ...
Mark's text on the purpose of the Sabbath, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath, [3] is not repeated in Luke. [ 4 ] Luke places the event at a specific date: Greek : εν σαββατω δευτεροπρωτω ( en sabbatō deuteroprōtō ), [ 5 ] translated in the King James Version as "on the second Sabbath after the first".