John 5:1-18 1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” 7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” 8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.” 11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ” 12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?” 13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. 14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
Here we see that a man who had been sick for 38 years. The Lord Jesus took the initiative to ask him if he wanted to be healed. He wanted, so the Lord Jesus healed him. The Lord Jesus healed him on the Sabbath. According to the Old Testament law, one must rest, cannot work on the Sabbath, The Jewish leader didn’t allow people to do anything on the Sabbath and told the healed man not to carry his mat. The man later told the Jewish leader that it was Jesus who had healed him. So the Jews persecuted Jesus. The Lord Jesus healed the sick on the Sabbath, they said that he broke the Sabbath, and they did not believe that the Lord Jesus was the Son of God. They claimed that he made himself equal with God, so they wanted to put him to death.
9 Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, 10 and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to bring charges against Jesus, they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” 11 He said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? 12 How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” 13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other. 14 But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus. (Matthew 12:9-14)
Here the Lord Jesus said that it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath, so it is lawful for him to heal people on the Sabbath.
Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. (Mark 2:27)
Here, the Lord Jesus said that the Sabbath was made for man, for people to have rest, it benefits people, not a burden for people.
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