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Question

What do Jesus's Sabbath actions and teachings reveal about the Sabbath's continuing validity? Investigate every recorded Sabbath controversy, Jesus's habitual Sabbath practice, Isaiah 58:13-14 as God's own guidelines, and whether Jesus abolished, changed, or affirmed the Sabbath.

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SABBATH

Signifying a period of rest: GEN 2:2,3; LEV 23; 25; 26:34,35

Preparations for the: EXO 16:22; MAT 27:62; MRK 15:42; LUK 23:54; JHN 19:31

Religious usages on the: GEN 2:3; MRK 6:2; LUK 4:16,31; 6:6; 13:10; ACT 13:14

Sacrifices on the: NUM 28:9,10; EZK 46:4,5

Unclassified Scriptures Relating To: GEN 2:2,3; EXO 16:5,23-30; 20:8-11; 23:12; 31:13-17; 34:21; 35:2,3; LEV 16:29-31; 19:3,30; 23:1-3,27-32; 24:8; 26:2,34,35; NUM 15:32-36; 28:9,10; DEU 5:12-15; 2KI 4:23; 1CH 9:32; 2CH 36:21; NEH 9:13,14; 10:31; 13:15-22; PSA 92:1-15; 118:24; ISA 1:13; 56:2,4-7; 58:13,14; 66:23; JER 17:21,22,24-27; LAM 1:7; 2:6; EZK 20:12,13,16,20,21,24; 22:8; 23:38; 44:24; 46:1,3; HOS 2:11; AMO 8:5; MAT 12:1-8,10-12; 24:20; MRK 2:27,28; 6:2; 16:1; LUK 4:16,31; 6:1-10; 13:10-17; 14:1-6; 23:54,56; JHN 5:5-14; 7:21-24; 9:1-34; 19:31; ACT 13:14,27,42,44; 15:21; 16:13; 17:2; 18:4; COL 2:16; HEB 4:4,9

Observance Of: - By Moses: NUM 15:32-34 - By Nehemiah: NEH 13:15,21 - By the women preparing to embalm the corpse of Jesus: LUK 23:56 - By Paul: ACT 13:14 - By the disciples: ACT 16:13 - By John: REV 1:10

Violations Of -- Instances: - Gathering manna: EXO 16:27 - Gathering sticks: NUM 15:32 - Men of Tyre: NEH 13:16 - The inhabitants of Jerusalem: JER 17:21-23

COMMANDMENTS

General scriptures: EXO 13:8-10; 20:3-17; DEU 4:5,9,10; 5:6-21; 6:4-9; 11:18-21; 32:46,47

Precepts of Jesus: MAT 5:16,22-24,27-48; 6:1-4; 7:1-29; 10:5-42; 16:24; 18:8-10,15-17; 19:16-19; 22:21,34-40; JHN 7:24; 13:34,35; 14:11,15,23,24; 15:2,4,5,7-12,14,17,20-22

Of Men (human traditions vs. God's commands): ISA 29:13; MAT 15:3-20; MRK 7:2-23; ROM 14:1-6,10-23; 1TI 4:1-3

TEN COMMANDMENTS

See COMMANDMENTS; See DECALOGUE

HOLINESS

Includes Sabbath-related references: ISA 58:13,14 (call the sabbath "the holy of the LORD, honourable"); HEB 4:3,9 (sabbath rest remains for the people of God)

SYNAGOGUE

Physical place of assembly: NEH 8:1-8; MAT 4:23; 9:35; MRK 1:39; LUK 4:15-33; 13:10; ACT 9:20; 13:5-44; 14:1; 15:21; 17:2,10; 18:4,19,26 Jesus performed healing in: MAT 12:9-13; LUK 13:11-14 Court functions: JHN 9:22,34; 12:42; 16:2

WORSHIP

To be rendered only to God: EXO 20:3; MAT 4:10; LUK 4:8 The word of God read in public assemblies: LUK 4:16,17; 1TI 4:13 God's presence in: LEV 19:30; PSA 84:4; ISA 56:7; HEB 10:25

Related Topics Discovered

• The SABBATH topic in Nave's covers the full scope needed: origin (Gen 2:2-3), Sinai legislation (Exo 20:8-11), prophetic teaching (Isa 56, 58, 66), Jesus's controversies (all four Gospels), apostolic practice (Acts), and the NT theological passages (Col 2:16, Heb 4:9).
• The COMMANDMENTS topic provides the framework for understanding Jesus's relationship to the law (Mat 5:17-20; 19:16-19; 22:34-40), including the crucial "commandments of men" category (Isa 29:13; Mat 15:3-20; Mark 7:2-23) which distinguishes God's actual commandments from human traditions -- directly relevant to the Pharisaic Sabbath regulations Jesus opposed.
• The SYNAGOGUE topic confirms the regular Sabbath worship pattern: Jesus and Paul both used synagogues on the Sabbath as their primary teaching venues.