Did Jesus Break the Sabbath?

[reddogs]

Many say that the following verses proves that Jesus broke the Sabbath and shows that Jesus worked on the Sabbath. Here is the rational that is presented:

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"16And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
17But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God." (John 5:17-18)

".......From these verses the writer says He did. And not only that, in response to criticism of breaking the Sabbath, Jesus didn't merely correct them on "which works" were acceptable on Sabbath (as He did in the synoptic gospels). Instead, here He said "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. " (and the day was a Sabbath day).... "healing" is an act of creation. It requires the creative power of God. It is possible to split hairs and say it's only "repairing", yet when you see that "creation" made "life", and then "sin" brought "death", sin essentially "un-did" creation. It requires the same power of creation in order to bring "life" again.

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"Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind." (John 9:32)

This is most clearly seen when Jesus healed the man born blind. His eyes had never worked. This was an act of brand-new creation. And He had done it on the Sabbath!

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6When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
7And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam,(which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.(John 9:6-7)

The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.(Genesis 2:7)

Jesus showed that He was the creator when He healed the born-blind man's eyes. He took the dust of the ground as God had at creation, and put it on the man's eyes. He mixed His own saliva in it, perhaps indicating that life was in Him, and the power to heal, restore and create life was in Him. It seems the directness of Christ's act of creative power here was not lost on the Jews. They didn't miss the message.....

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"By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing, so on the seventh day He rested [ceased] from all His work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested [ceased] from all the work of creating that He had done." (Genesis 2:2-3)

Somehow in focusing on the 4th Commandment (of the 10), we focused in on the weekly cycle of 7 days and got this idea that God also rested every seventh day. We thought it was God's day of rest, and somehow assumed that He, too, must be resting on Sabbath.
But Jesus' actions and words in John 9 show that God did not and does not rest on the Sabbath day. God the Son did not cease from creating as God had ceased [rested] from creating at creation.

God rested on the first "seventh day". When the Sabbath (was given to man), He was by that point already "back at work". He did not rest on their Sabbaths, and He does not rest on ours, either.

So what was the Sabbath for?

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"The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath." (Mark 2:27-28)

Jesus said that the Sabbath was made for man. It was not made for God, it was made for man....."

 

[Christopher M Nance]

Sabbath is for man, not man for the Sabbath. You can do God's work and good deeds on the Sabbath, just like Jesus would heal on the Sabbath. You shouldn't force others to work on the Sabbath though, and particularly you shouldn't do work for self gain.

 

[OldStudent]

The Sabbath was very important in Jesus’ mind. He understood the intent of the Sabbath – after all, He is Lord of the Sabbath. He created it. He can shape it and define it as He chooses. He had no reservations about ignoring, stepping on, or otherwise disregarding the overburden of traditions and rules that had been overlaid on it by religious hierarchy. Those He broke with impunity and even deliberateness.

Hmmm. Could WE have put traditions and rules on the Sabbath He might like to step on? What guidance might He give us on what to do with the time?

 

[Gibs]

The Holy Sabbath day is also a feast day, not a day of feast of eating foods but a spiritual feast day as He is in it come to tabernacle with us and to shed His light upon us. We feast upon that light and need all we can get to be strong enough to endure another week until we can be filled again.

It is also a rest in Him that we rest our weary souls in Him, casting on him all that we are to keep. We have no other companion so close.

Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Joh 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Php 4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

 

[Leuko Petra]

Many say that the following verses proves that Jesus broke the Sabbath and shows that Jesus worked on the Sabbath. Here is the rational that is presented:

Quote:
"16And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
17But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God." (John 5:17-18)...

In a short answer, the word for "broken" in Greek is "lyo" and means "loosed", like "untied", "released from restriction", etc.

Yes, Jesus "loosed" the Sabbath from all the unwarranted pharisaical nonsense/traditions/talmudic and oral teachings [added after Nehemiah] which were nullifying the Commandment of God, and Jesus thus restored the Sabbath to what it should have been, even as He always taught in every instance where an action was questioned on the Sabbath.

Jesus always magnified the Law, and always made it Honourable.

What the Jews said was True. He did Loose the Sabbath from their false conceptions and did indeed claim to be equal to the Father.

They merely thought that what Jesus was doing was actual transgression of the Commandment, since they had so closely tied to the Commandment of God all the worthless traditions and restrictions of men [even if it started out well-meaning, they fell from one ditch, totally disregarding the Sabbath, to the other ditch, bind it about with man-made rules so as not to break it, but in so doing, they broke it]...

Did Jesus actually break the Sabbath Commandment? No... for if he did, we are all lost and dead men...

...but scripture is clear He is sinless...

 

[Gibs]

The Jews had made the Royal Law a burden by their added requirements and the Sabbath was no exception.

Jesus kept it as required and as we should. Men like to add or subtract and it is not safe to follow men.

Mt 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

 

[Hizikyah]

No Yahshua did not break the Sabbath

Mattithyah 12:9-12, "And going on from there, He went into their synagogue; And, behold, there was a man who had a withered hand. Then they asked Him, saying; Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath Days?--so that they might have a reason to accuse Him. But He asked them: What man is there among you having one sheep, and if
it falls into a pit on the Sabbath Day, would not lay hands on it and pull it out?And how much more valuable is a man than a sheep? Therefore, it is Lawful to do righteousness on the Sabbath."

Yahshua did break the Talmudic law over and over and on purpose. Talmud law is the law the rabbi's taught, it is in no way shape or form the Law of Yahweh.

 

[Gibs]

A Messianic Jew is not of the Talmud but of the Torah and Jesus and those with Him were of the Word of God, not the Talmud.

There may be a lot in the Talmud but when error is weaved in it is no longer truth!

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

1Jo 4:5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
1Jo 4:6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

 

[Hizikyah]

The Talmud says, if anyone eats more than 2 meals on the Sabbath he has broken it.

And there was a 40 step (or something) distance you coud travel on Sabbath, but if they walked forty steps the buried thier lunce, then walked 40 steps then buried thier lunch, then walked 40 steps then buried thier bed (thin mat) then thats how far they could "legally" travel. Yep the Bablonian Talmud, foolish and evil, this is the "burden" Yahsua spoke of, this is the type of "laws" He continually broke and rebuke the pharisees for. (p.s there are also laws which justify evil doing, permit the murder of gentiles, etc oh the evil Talmud)

 

[reddogs]

The Sabbath was very important in Jesus’ mind. He understood the intent of the Sabbath – after all, He is Lord of the Sabbath. He created it. He can shape it and define it as He chooses. He had no reservations about ignoring, stepping on, or otherwise disregarding the overburden of traditions and rules that had been overlaid on it by religious hierarchy. Those He broke with impunity and even deliberateness.

Hmmm. Could WE have put traditions and rules on the Sabbath He might like to step on? What guidance might He give us on what to do with the time?

Good point.