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The oral Pharasaic law was, just like the washing of hands, traditions, not the laws of the LORD GOD.Jesus *said to him, “Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.” 9 Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk. Now it was a Sabbath on that day. 10 So the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, “It is a Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet.”
In this post, I will not address the matter of whether carrying the pallet is against the Law - I agree that, seen in isolation of the rest of the exchange, a good case can be made that the Law was not being broken here.
Yes, it was subversive, but not in the way you think. He was trying, as in many other places to attack their (Pharasees) laws which they held above God's laws. Surely not attacking his own and Fathers laws.But look at this highly subversive statement from Jesus a few sentences down in the exchange:
For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on a Sabbath. 17 But He answered them, “My Father [g]is working until now, and I Myself am working.
Yes he was, he healed a man.Jesus is clearly claiming to work, yes work, on the Sabbath.
The problem with that is the definition of 'work'. You won't find that anywhere in the Torah. Sometimes it's defined as 'servile work'. But not everything that is 'work' is not allowed on Shabbat. For instance a woman may change a babies diaper on Shabbat. Showing mercy on Shabbat is never seen by God as a violation of his Laws.And while carrying a pallet may not contravene the Sabbath laws, directly claiming to work certainly does.
I don't know what "the continual generation of exceptions" means but..Now then, people will, as I have said, try to wiggle their out of this spot by claiming that what Jesus did was an exception - it did not really count as "work". This is what I am objecting to - the continual generation of exceptions in order to salvage the view that Jesus did not break the Law.
There's nothing to wiggle out of, what you must do is understand what mercy over sacrifice means. Jesus taught on this to to those of little understanding. They tried to accuse him there also.
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!” But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless? Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple. But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
They not only condemned his disciples but himself as well.
He is not challenging the laws he made (John 1)But when Jesus directly claims to be working on the Sabbath, we know all too well, He is not claiming an exception - He is directly challenging the Sabbath law.
15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. 17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
Again there is nothing in Torah that prevents anyone from having Mercy, especially on Shabbat, his 'work' was to make a man whole, which is one of the things he came to do.
16Then fear came upon all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has risen up among us”; and, “God has visited His people.” 17And this report about Him went throughout all Judea and all the surrounding region.
18Then the disciples of John reported to him concerning all these things. 19And John, calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to Jesus, saying, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?”
20When the men had come to Him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to You, saying, ‘Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?’ ” 21And that very hour He cured many of infirmities, afflictions, and evil spirits; and to many blind He gave sight.
22Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them.
I think you probably know that a lot of Doctors are Jewish. What would you think if one of your loved ones or yourself were in serious need of medical help and it was on a Sabbath and a Doctor came to you and told you he couldn't help you until the sun went down?
It is good and acceptable to the LORD to do good on the Sabbath.
Here is another example:
1And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. 2And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.
3And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
4And they held their peace.
And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;
5And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day? 6And they could not answer him again to these things.
WHY couldn't they answer him? Because they knew that the law says about immediate help being needed.
Luke 13 shares something similar.
10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. 12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. 13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
15 The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? 16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
17 And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
His adversaries in that day had the decency to be ashamed for accusing the HOLY ONE of sin when all he was doing was showing mercy.
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