Why did Jesus, by his own admission, break the Sabbath law (John 5:16-18)?

Question

This puts the lie to the Christian idea that the perfect Jesus fulfilled the whole Law, and therefore was a suitable unblemished sacrifice for our sins.

Answer 1

He was demonstrating that the Judaic law was ended. It had served its purpose in helping establish the nation of Israel as a godly nation apart from all others.

Read more of the New Testament. Christ deliberately breaks many of the Judaic laws. It's one of the reasons the ruling class hated him. He wasn't the warrior-king they had been expecting, yet he fulfilled all the ancient prophecies and could work miracles. He refused to elevate them to rule over all the Earth, instead spending much of his ministry rebuking them for their self-righteousness.

Jesus knew what he was doing.

Answer 2

The Jews for generations have been wishing that the Sabbath observation be lifted by God so they can sell their wheats and products even on Saturdays. He must have thought that he could gain their favors by making justifications on breaking the law and he even claimed to be the Lord of the Sabbath. Since he knows that there are some of his disciples who believe he was the Son of the Living God, he thought that he has the right to make some changes. Although, he is the one himself who also said that He came to fulfill the Law which is the law written in the Old Testament. ONe reason why he died a horrible death not only on the cross by the flogging with the rod of his own men. See 1Samuel and Chronicle You will see how a chosen one is called Son and God as a Father and how one can suffer in the hands of his own men when he disobey the law of God.

Answer 3

once again we've an challenge of interpretation. that's the Sabbath; it isn't lawful that you'll be able to carry your mattress: wearing a mattress (truly a napping-mat or a bedroll) develop into in fact a contravention of the rabbis’ interpretation of the commandment antagonistic to doing paintings or organisation on the Sabbath. It develop into no longer a breaking of God’s regulation of the Sabbath, even with the indisputable fact that the human interpretation of God’s regulation. This devotion to the rabbis’ interpretation of the Sabbath regulation nevertheless is going on in the present day. An April, 1992 information merchandise: Tenants enable 3 apartments in an Orthodox community in Israel burn to the floor even as they requested a rabbi no matter if a telephone call to the fireplace branch on the Sabbath might want to violate Jewish regulation. Observant Jews are forbidden to apply the phone on the Sabbath, because doing so might want to destroy an electric powered present day, it quite is taken under consideration a sort of work. in the 1/2-hour it took the rabbi to come back to a call "definite," the fireplace spread to 2 neighboring apartments. might want to Jesus enable those apartments burn, too? Or extra perfect yet, might want to you?

Answer 4

You should read the whole chapter 5: around verses 5-16

the jewish leaders will trying to find an excuse to trap Jesus. He heal a sick man on the sabbath & these leader say taking up the mat & walk is breaking the sabbath law of non-working. Silly excuse of taking up your mat as work??

Now if you or me were the sick man, would Jesus puts our welfare above the "take up your mat"sabbath law. Offcourse He would & off course we want to get heal straight away & not wait for the next day. He might be gone then.

Answer 5

Jesus explained all the time about the old laws of Moses and that a lot of them no longer applied to them. Every morning and evening an animal was sacrificed in the temple for people's sins. Jesus came to take place of that sacrifice, which is referred to as the "living sacrifice." Once Jesus died on the cross and rose again, mankind no longer had to do the certain rituals in order to show favor from God and forgivness from God. Everything is now through Jesus Christ. We go to Him when we ask for forgivness.

Mankind was corrputing God's law, so that they would form it to their own sinful desires(pride, powerful, etc.) Jesus came to explain the laws. Which man said that you have to rest on the Sabbath and cannot do any work, because God rested on the Sabbath. Jesus did work on the Sabbath to make one simple point, GOD'S WORK DOES NOT REST ON THE SABBATH, nor does He on any day.

This is from the Life application Bible. It is a footnote about Jesus' healing a man's hand on the Sabbath and the disciples picking wheat on the Sabbath:

"Jewish legal tradition had 39 categories of activities forbidden on the Sabbath, and harvesting was one of them. The teachers of religious law even went so far as to describe different methods of harvesting. One method was to rub the heads of grain between the hands, as the disciples were doing here. God's law said farmers were to leave the edges of their fields unplowed so travelers and the poor could eat from this bounty(Deuteronomy 23:25); thus, the disciples were not guilty of stealing grain. Neither were they breaking the Sabbath by doing their daily work on it.. In fact, though they may have been violating the Pharisees' rules, they were not breaking any divine law."

"According to the tradition of the religious leaders, no healing could be done on the Sabbath. Healing, they said, was practicing medicine, and a person could not practice his or her profession on the Sabbath. The religious leaders were more concerned about protecting their laws than freeing a person from painful suffering. The religious leaders were more concerned with negatives: what rules should not be broken, what activities should not be done. Jesus was positive; doing good and helping those in need."


BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT GOD SAYS AND MAN SAYS. Man does it because they want to suppress people. God does it because He wants to guide, direct, and free people. YES FREE PEOPLE.

Answer 6

Jesus Christ fulfilled the biblical law of the Sabboth and that was to remember it and to keep it Holy.

What the legalists were challenging was all the rules and laws that they themselves(man) had added to this very basic law.

Jesus said that although they followed the letter of the law, they certainly missed the whole point of keeping the day Holy, for do you wait until after the sabboth to attend to the sick? Do you wat until after the sabboth to rescue a person or an animal from certain death? No, you do Gods work, and that is helping all.

What you do not do on the Sabboth is work for your own personal gain or pleasure. For if done in Gods name, it is good.

Its not about the letter of the law, its about the heart and why you are doing something. We do not have to judge (or determine) why someone is doing something on the Sabboth, God knows and judges accordingly.

Answer 7

Jesus didn't break the sabbath laws, he broke the traditions that the Jews had set beyond what was written.

2nd, Jesus as Lord of the Sabbath (1000 year reign of Christ)

Was the final judge of what was acceptable and what wasn't.

Answer 8

Ah... si... however if you look a little more in-depth at the situation you will discover a couple of facts that will shoot the idea that that was a sin down. 1. there is a difference between sins and transgressions. 2. the Jesuit law at that time was really strict and honestly unnecessary especially when it came to what you could and could not do on the sabath... going so far as to say that you could only 'untie a knot with one hand' and it limited you to the number of steps that you could take in one day... after that you had to hop on one foot. 3. who made these laws? the sanhedran and similar government bodies... these were not commandments handed down from god like "thou shalt not kill" furthermore susan i would suggest that you read a little more in depth the parable of the "ox in the mire" you sound like a freakin scribe...
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Answer 9

One of the major misunderstandings of those days is that many believe there was only one law, the Law of God, aka Torah. In fact, there was another - the laws and reforms (takanot) of the Pharisees.

When compared, there are differences between the commandments of God and the reforms of the Pharisees. So when Yeshua "broke" the Sabbath law when he prayed over people for their health, he wasn't breaking any of God's commandments, but he was breaking the traditional reforms of the Pharisees.

Answer 10

“Get up, pick up your cot and walk.” Jesus spoke these words to a man who had been sick for 38 years. The Gospel account continues: “With that the man immediately became sound in health, and he picked up his cot and began to walk.” Surprisingly, not all were pleased by this turn of events. Says the account: “The Jews went persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things during Sabbath.”

The Sabbath was intended to be a day of rest and rejoicing for all. (Exodus 20:8-11) By Jesus’ day, though, it had become a maze of oppressive, man-made rules.

How did Jesus view such legalistic hairsplitting? When criticized for healing on the Sabbath, he said: “My Father has kept working until now, and I keep working.” (John 5:17) Jesus was not performing secular work in order to enrich himself. Rather, he was doing the will of God. Just as the Levites were allowed to continue their sacred service on the Sabbath, Jesus could rightfully carry out his God-assigned duties as the Messiah without violating God’s Law.

Jesus’ Sabbath-day cures also exposed the Jewish scribes and Pharisees as being “righteous overmuch”
rigid and unbalanced in their thinking. (Ecclesiastes 7:16) Certainly, it was not God’s will that good works be restricted to certain days of the week; nor did God intend the Sabbath to be an empty exercise in rule following. Jesus said at Mark 2:27: “The sabbath came into existence for the sake of man, and not man for the sake of the sabbath.” Jesus loved people, not arbitrary rules.

WHEN the Jewish religious leaders accuse Jesus of breaking the Sabbath, he answers: “My Father has kept working until now, and I keep working.”

Despite the claim of the Pharisees, Jesus’ work is not of the type forbidden by Sabbath law. His work of preaching and healing is an assignment from God, and in imitation of God’s example, he keeps on doing it daily.