SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK or SABBATH DAY or Saturday
In the last in this series we looked at the First Day of the week, The LORD's Day, what we today call Sunday (Read that post here).Now we are going to spend time looking at the Biblical Sabbath, which is of course, Day 7, known today as Saturday. As this study progresses we will see that tradition has caused Sunday to also be seen as the Sabbath, but for now we look at the Biblical Sabbath.The Biblical Sabbath begins at sunset(as all days do in God's timing) on Friday and continues to sunset on Saturday. Here are some relevant Scriptures:
Gen 2:1 And so the whole universe was completed.
Gen 2:2 By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working.
Gen 2:3 He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.
Mar 1:21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
Mar 2:24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
Mar 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Luk 4:31 And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.
Luk 6:2 And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
Luk 13:14 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.
Joh 9:14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
Joh 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Act 13:44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
Act 18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
