Bible Readings — Bible Questions Answered

Sabbath in New Testament Times and Later

How did Christ, while on earth, regard the Sabbath? BR-ASI9 315.12

“As His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.” Luke 4:16. BR-ASI9 315.13

By what did Christ recognize the Sabbath law? BR-ASI9 316.1

“And He said unto them, . . . It is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.” Matthew 12:11, 12. BR-ASI9 316.2

Note.—“The fact, however, that Christ until His death, and His Apostles at least for a time after Christ’s Ascension, observed the Sabbath is evidence enough that our Lord Himself did not substitute the Lord’s day for the Sabbath, during His lifetime on earth.”—Vincent J. Kelly (Catholic), Forbidden Sunday and Feast-Day Occupations (1943 ed.), pp. 19, 20. BR-ASI9 316.3

William Prynne says: “It is certain, that Christ himself, his Apostles, and the Primitive Christians, for some good space of time did constantly observe the seventh day Sabbath.”—A Briefe Polemicall Dissertation, Concerning . . . the Lordsday-Sabbath, p. 33. BR-ASI9 316.4