>Jesus gave no laws about working on the Sabbath.
Please consider Luke 14:3-6. It's not stated in the manner of direct
commands,
like the Kitab-i-Aqdas, but Jesus is discussing the law of the Sabbath, and
by His actions and words He is showing what the true law is.
"14:3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is
it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? 14:4 And they held their peace. And he
took him, and healed him, and let him go; 14:5 And answered them, saying,
Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not
straightway pull him out on the sabbath day? 14:6 And they could not answer
him again to these things.
(King James Bible, Luke)
Dear Tim,
What Jesus was doing in that passage was extending a well-known Pharisaic
principle that matters of life and death take precedence over any other Law.
The Pharisees might have held since if a person could be healed just as well
after the sabbath one should wait until then. Jesus wasn't willing to make
that distinction.
warmest, Susan
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