The "Jewish" Sabbath by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 1, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 13.

The "Jewish" Sabbath.

By Editor

SAYS a correspondent: "There is not a single text which plainly says that Christ or the apostles ever kept the Jewish Sabbath." So we say. We go even farther, and say that there is no text that intimates that they ever kept the Jewish Sabbath. Do you wish to know the reason of this silence? It is because in all the Bible there is no mention of such a thing as "the Jewish Sabbath." Of course Christ and his apostles could not keep a thing that had no existence. But there was a day which Christ kept in common with most of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. That day was the seventh day, "the Sabbath of the Lord," "the Lord's day." How do we know that he kept it? Because the observance of the seventh day is commanded in the law of God (Ex. 20:8-11), and Jesus said, "I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." John 15:10.