Sabbath is given and commanded as a day of rest, being modeled after the idea that God rested after all the work that God had done to create the world (Ex. 20:8-11). In Deuteronomy, sabbath is also ...

The Sabbath, Jacques Ellul contends, “shows that work is not after all so excellent or desirable a thing as people often tell us.” In other words, Sabbath provides work with a healthy ...

Mark suggests that Jesus’ opponents were watching him to find fault, and this action by his disciples constituted “work” on the Sabbath.

All work requires rest days; however, working on prescribed days of rest is always permissible when serving humanity. We keep the Sabbath day holy when we serve the community through our labor.

He also had the nerve to do some of that miracle healing on the Sabbath, which was considered by religious authorities to be “working on the Sabbath,” a big Sabbath law no-no. Worse, to those ...