Mark 2:23 - Forerunner Commentary

Mark 2:23

21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse.

22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.”

Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath

23 ^aNow it happened that He went through the grainfields on the Sabbath; and as they went His disciples began ^bto pluck the heads of grain.

24 And the Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why do they do what is ^anot lawful on the Sabbath?”

25 But He said to them, “Have you never read ^awhat David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those with him:

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Mark 2:23-28

I think it helps to understand it a little bit better if we just change one word. The Sabbath was made on account of man. Man needs the Sabbath! He needs it physically, because he needs to rest (Exodus 20). But over and above that, he needs the Sabbath even more SPIRITUALLY (Deuteronomy 5:15). That is, for the purpose of recognition of the fact that he has been redeemed. He is no longer in bondage. And he needs to use his time—to "make it," to be prepared for, qualified for, to be in the Kingdom of God, to please God, to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ, to grow spiritually, to maintain the liberty that we have been given and to grow towards the Kingdom of God.

Nowhere does Jesus say that the Sabbath is done away. He doesn't indicate it at all—anywhere! And so when He says that He is "Lord of the Sabbath," He is saying that He has the authority to determine how the day is to be kept. We ought to be able to see so far—especially from things that we saw in John 5, 7 and 9—that God does not intend the day to be a day of loafing around

Excerpted from The Fourth Commandment (Part 3)

Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Mark 2:23:

Exodus 20:8
Exodus 31:12-17

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