Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

Ver. 28. Therefore the Son of man] This Lordship taking beginning in Christ, seems to be, from him, derived to all that are in Christ. As Psa 8:4-5 cf. Hebrews 2:6,7. Whatever David speaks of man, is applied to Christ, and so is proper to the saints, by virtue of their union with Christ.

Is Lord also of the sabbath] And can dispense with it. The schoolmen say that God can dispense with the materiality of any precept in the decalogue, the three first excepted.

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