3181.-First Day of the Week by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 12, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 27.

3181.—First Day of the Week

By Editor

Will you kindly tell me where and how many times the first day of the week is mentioned in the New Testament? L. E.

The passages relating to the first day of the week are as follows: Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:2, 9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1, 19; Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:2, eight occurrences in all, not one of which calls the first day the Sabbath or indicates that it is in any wise sacred. On the contrary it shows it to be a day of secular occupation. There is one other expression found in Luke 24:13 which refers to that day, showing that the disciples were about their regular business. Six of these texts refer to the same first day of the week. One of them refers to a meeting held on the evening or first part of the first day, the rest of the day being used for travel. The last occurrence refers to business transactions in which after the week was over the individual should reckon up his accounts and deduct therefrom a certain proportion.