Matthew 12:8

For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day. FOR THE SON OF MAN IS LORD [EVEN] OF THE SABBATH DAY. [The bracketed word "even" - kai (G2532) - should not be in the text, as the overwhelming weight of authority against it shows.] In what sense now is the Son of man Lord of the sabbath day? Not surely to abolish it-that surely were a strange lordship, especially just after saying that it was made or instituted [ egeneto (G1096)] for MAN-but to own it, to interpret it, to preside over it, and to ennoble it, by merging it in "the Lord's Day" (Revelation 1:10), breathing into it an air of liberty and love necessarily unknown before, and thus making it the nearest resemblance to the eternal s...

8._For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath. _Some connect this sentence with a preceding statement, _that one greater than the temple is in this place, _(Matthew 12:6;) but I look upon them as different. In the former case, Christ, by an allusion to _the temple, _affirmed that whatever was connected with his personal holiness was not a transgression of the Law; but now, he declares that he has received authority to exempt his followers from the necessity of observing the Sabbath. _The Son of man, _(he says,) in the exercise of his authority, can relax the Sabbath in the same manner as other legal ceremonies. And certainly out of Christ the bondage of the Law is wretched, from which he alone delivers those on whom he bestows the free _Spirit of adoption, _(82) (Romans 8:15

1-8 Being in the corn-fields, the disciples began to pluck the ears of corn: the law of God allowed it, Deuteronomy 23:25. This was slender provision for Christ and his disciples; but they were content with it. The Pharisees did not quarrel with them for taking another man's corn, but for doing it on the sabbath day. Christ came to free his followers, not only from the corruptions of the Pharisees, but from their unscriptural rules, and justified what they did. The greatest shall not have their lusts indulged, but the meanest shall have their wants considered. Those labours are lawful on the sabbath day which are necessary, and sabbath rest is to froward, not to hinder sabbath worship. Needful provision for health and food is to be made; but when servants are kept at home, and families become a scene of hurry and confusion on the Lord's day, to furnish a feast for visitors, or for indul...

Verse Matthew 12:8. _THE SON OF MAN IS LORD EVEN OF THE SABBATH-DAY._] The change of the Jewish into the Christian Sabbath, called the _Lord's_ _day_, Revelation 1:10, shows that Christ is not only the _Lord_, but also the _truth_ and _completion_ of it. For it seems to have been by an especial providence that this change has been made and acknowledged all over the Christian world....

FOR THE SON OF MAN IS LORD EVEN OF THE SABBATH DAY - To crown all, Christ says that he was Lord of the Sabbath. He had a right to direct the manner of its observance - undoubted proof that he is divine....

EXPOSITION MATTHEW 12:1 The opposition that our Lord met with (1) from his enemies (Matthew 12:1); (2) from his relations (Matthew 12:46-40); ,and the manner in which he dealt with it. MATTHEW 12:1 (1) _Opposition from his enemies._ (A) Conscious and wilful opposition (Matthew 12:1). (α) As regards the sabbath ...

FOR THE SON OF MAN IS LORD EVEN OF THE SABBATH DAY. By "the Son of man" is meant, not any man, as some have thought; for no mere man is lord of any law, moral or ritual, natural or positive; or has a power of disposing of it, and dispensing with it at pleasure; but Christ himself; which is the constant sense of this phrase in the New Testament, and is a character of the Messiah in the old, Daniel 7:13 who, as he was the institutor of the sabbath among the Jews, that being a ritual, and of mere positive institution, could dispense with it, and even abrogate it at his pleasure. The Jews so far agree to this, that he that commanded the law of the sabbath, could dispense with it; they say z, that "the day on which Jericho was taken was the sabbath day; and that though they slew and burnt on the sabbath day, מי שצוה על השבת צוה לחלל שבת, "he that commanded the observation o

9. THE REJECTION CONSUMMATED AND THE BROKEN RELATIONSHIP. CHAPTER 12 1. The Hungry Disciples and the Accusing Pharisees. (Matthew 12:1 .) 2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed.(Matthew 12:10 .) 3. The Hatred of the Pharisees.(Matthew 12:14 .) 4. The King in Rejection. (Matthew 12:15 .) 5. The Demon Possessed Man Healed. (Matthew 12:22 .) 6. The Blasphemy of the Pharisees and the King's Answer. (Matthew 12:24 .) 7. The Sign of Jo

SABBATH OBSERVANCE (Mark 2:23 *, Luke 6:1). The incident shows that the disciples were learning their Master's teaching. Deuteronomy 23:25 allowed the practice, but the Rabbinical objection to it on the Sabbath was that it was reaping. The variations from Mk. are not important, except the omission of the mistaken reference to Abiathar, and the addition of Matthew 12:5 as a further and stronger historic exception. Various kinds of Sabbath work were not only permitted but commanded to the priests. Matthew 12:6 f. perhaps belonged originally to another occasio

FOR THE SON OF MAN IS LORD OF THE SABBATH DAY. Because the Sabbath is made for humanity, the Lord of humanity is Lord of the Sabbath. Observe, _is_ Lord of the Sabbath. He does not, then, abolish it, but has the right to make any change in it, in the interest of mankind, that seems to him wise. That is, he has authority and power, both as God and as Mediator, to institute and appoint. Sabbath, to alter and change the Sabbath, to dispense with the breach of it upon. just and great occasion.--_ Burkitt._ Our Savior takes all occasions to insinuate to the Jews that he was more than man. He does it here in two instances. "If I, who am 'greater than the temple,' and '_ Lord of the Sabbath,_. do not reprove them, why do ye?"--_ Bonnell._...