Collected verses. In some cases the original articles could probably be removed. The intent here is to keep things logical and straightforward.
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.Matthew 5:17
| Why was the Sabbath made? What is it's purpose? | |
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| 27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: 28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. | Mark 2:27-28 |
| 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. 2 And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation. | Genesis 2:1-3 |
| 8 Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work. 10 But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it. | Exodus 20:8-11 |
| 12 Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work. 14 But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you. 15 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day. | Deuteronomy 5:12-15 |
| 12 The Lord said to Moses: 13 You yourself are to speak to the Israelites: “You shall keep my sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, given in order that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you. 14 You shall keep the sabbath, because it is holy for you; everyone who profanes it shall be put to death; whoever does any work on it shall be cut off from among the people. 15 Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall be put to death. 16 Therefore the Israelites shall keep the sabbath, observing the sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.” | Exodus 31:12-17 |
| 12 Moreover I gave them my sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, so that they might know that I the Lord sanctify them. | Ezekiel 20:12 |
| The Showbread Strawman / hunger exception | |
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| 3 Jesus answered, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and gave some to his companions?” | Luke 6:3-4 |
| [a] …his disciples plucked some heads of grain, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them. | Luke 6:1 |
| [b] 32 Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. 33 And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. 34 They put him under guard, because it had not been explained what should be done to him. 35 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.” 36 So, as the Lord commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died. | Numbers 15:32-36 |
[a] “Therefore,” he says, that man is lord over keeping the sabbath. This is a convincing argument, but it is not actually true. The question of the rabbis was never that they were merely eating; it is that they were reaping and threshing the grain, collecting it and possibly even preparing food with it. Second to this there may have been the idea that they had eaten for themselves without giving an offering (Leviticus 23:14; cf. Deuteronomy 23:25; II Kings 4:42). However, this is not alluded to, only the rubbing in the hands which is known to have been expressly forbidden (see Luke 6:1)
[b] We therefore see that God's will is very clear on this matter. The man who was gathering firewood on the sabbath was clearly doing so out of a need. He needed to build a fire, presumably to cook food. To fully understand his violation one must consider that God had on many occasions told them that on the sixth day they are to gather double; or that God would provide double on the sixth day, or even for the jubilee year that God would provide a double harvest in the sixth year. It is important to note this story is phrased as “Now whhile the children of Israel were in the wilderness…” which means it was during the time they were being tested by God and receiving mana. Thus, these examples are connected, and relevant, and there does not seem to be an easy way out for the idea that the Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.
13 If you refrain from trampling the sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day;
if you call the sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways, serving your own interests, or pursuing your own affairs;
14 then you shall take delight in the Lord,
and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth;
I will feed you with the heritage of your ancestor Jacob,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 58:13-14