John 5:18
For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
I am aware that most commentators are of the opinion that Jesus did not break the Sabbath and that the Jews had falsely accused him, but if you look at it more closely, the Jews were actually right in their accusation that Jesus broke the Sabbath.
Any time you get into a position where you are arguing along with the false accusers of Christ - with his enemies - it should raise a red flag in your mind that just maybe you are arguing on the wrong side of that fence.
Reason:
The law says you shall not bear any burden on the Sabbath (Jeremiah 17:21-22). That this commandment is to be understood in exactly this way can be seen from the fact that God had a man stoned to death for carrying only wood on the Sabbath (Numbers 15:32-36). Jesus broke this commandment by commanding the healed man to carry his bed (John 5:10-11).
Not true.
The OT condemned gathering wood and working to kindle a fire (a lot of work if you have ever tried to do that without a match and gasoline) -- by contrast picking up a simple mat and carrying it to one's house is not "an occupation" , is not "secular work". So Jesus can say about such senseless rules of the Pharisees "
the Sabbath was MADE for MANKIND, not mankind MADE for the Sabbath" Mark 2:27
Pharisees made stuff up, adding their own onerous regulations as if God could be blamed for stuff they made up.
The Jews were right in their accusation in this regard.
Not true - they were falsely accusing others based on stuff they simply made up.
So then Mark 7:6-13 Jesus flat out condemns all their made up traditions because as He said - they were nullifying the Commandments of God by the stuff they were making up.
And the clear proof that Jesus broke the Sabbath lies in the fact that John the author of the Gospel agrees with this in verse 18. If Jesus had not broken the Sabbath, he would not have expressed himself in this way but would have made it clear that the Jews were lying.
Not true.
Just as in Acts 10 Peter says "you know that it is not lawful for one who is a Jew to eat with gentiles" - but in fact there is no such law in scripture - rather it was another made up rule of the Jews.
The reason why Jesus broke the ceremonial commandments like the Sabbath was not because he was a sinner for he is sinless but because he wanted to show that these commandments are to be understood spiritually.
nope.
Even in the NT "Sin IS transgression of the Law" 1 John 3:4
Jesus lists a number of God's commandments in Matt 5 and shows how HIS rule Magnifies and strengthens the commands of God instead of downsizing or deleting. Take adultery for example - how does Matt 5 magnify that commandment?
The Sabbath was never to be the seventh day of the week.
"The
seventh day IS The Sabbath of the LORD (YHWH)" Ex 20:10
In Ex 16 "tomorrow IS the Sabbath" and for 40 years -- no manna on the EXACT seventh day... each week.
The Sabbath was Jesus Christ,
Not one text says "Jesus is the Sabbath" ... no text says "Jesus is your Sabbath" . No text says "after the disciples joined Christ they stopped keeping the Sabbath"