Chapter 4 | Did Messiah Break the Sabbath?

Why Heal, Teach And Let Your Serving Disciples Eat On The SABBATH?

Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

Matthew 12:12 KJV

Chapter 4 | Did Messiah Break

the Sabbath?

Knowing that Messiah kept the Sabbath as His custom was, there are those scholars and especially seminaries that teach that Messiah then broke the Sabbath. Understand in doing so they just undermined Messiah as an outlaw who sinned. This leads to the undermining of all of scripture as if He sinned, He was not perfect and sinless. One would think every scholar would consider that but they are too entrenched in paradigms from the doctrines of men to even see what the Bible very clearly states. Did Messiah break the Sabbath? Heaven forbid. They are not reading and comprehending in the slightest. Let’s review. What they seem oblivious too is the accusers of Messiah are the Pharisees who claim he broke their expanded interpretation of His Sabbath. Who knew Sabbath better, Him or the Pharisees whom He rebukes many times over? How can any scholar side with Pharisee accusations against Messiah? He taught and healed on the Sabbath and often. Was this unbiblical? No.

Luke 13:10-13 KJV And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

This is awesome! Jesus(Yahusha) healed this woman but it was the Sabbath. Exactly! That is a day of healing even. The question is why

don’t Pharisees know that? He will correct them and they are powerless.

Luke 13:14 KJV And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

The righteous indignation of the ignorant and unrighteous is what scholarship placates and treats as Gospel in this passage. How dare you heal on the Sabbath. Wouldn’t the point and focus be the miracle that just occurred to any normal person? What kind of idiot rebukes the Son of Yahuah for healing someone ever? What kind of church places his accusation above Messiah’s brilliant answer? It is as if they stop reading right there and then, make accusation that He broke the Sabbath. No, He deals with a jealous Pharisee who can’t heal and has no power. He stepped on the man’s pride. He just pulled the foundation out from underneath this Pharisee’s righteousness and proved the Pharisee Sabbath is not His practice. He heals on the Sabbath and He always has. For a Pharisee to not know this, means they do not know Yahuah nor His Son. Yet these scholars use that guy’s words to ridicule our Savior.

Luke 13:15-17 KJV The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

When Jesus(Yahusha) calls someone a hypocrite, it means they are a hypocrite. Scholars following this hypocrite then, make themselves hypocrites. He begins in defining work that is permissible on the Sabbath. You loose your ox and take him out for water. He needs water and Sabbath is not a day of starving nor even fasting (no, that is not Bible but

Catholic illiteracy). Your ox is allowed to drink. The Pharisees of course knew this and practice it as do all. No one locks their ox in the stall and leaves him to thirst and starve for a day because it’s Sabbath. It just doesn’t work that way. That shepherd would not be breaking the Sabbath and Messiah is telling us neither did He. The Sabbath Law never intended for your animal to thirst and starve just as it does not prohibit healing those in need. Really, Rabbi Wrong, you think you have the authority to stop this woman from being released from her sickness after 18 years of bondage? Should she not be loosed as well like the ox to rid her suffering? Should we leave her to thirst and starve and pain? At least in this instance the Pharisees felt ashamed. They knew He was right and they were wrong. Yet how is it that scholars cannot seem to read this? Instead, they take the narrative backwards to the accusation that is proven wrong and the Pharisees even admit such. However, they apply Pharisee doctrine disproven as their doctrine claiming this proves Jesus broke the Sabbath. Yet, He did not. He teaches us of the Sabbath over many accounts and here, He, the Son of Yahuah, says it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days. He means it is permissible and always has been to heal on the Sabbath. In fact, He encourages such and the Apostles continued this not because they are law-breaking bandits but they are still following the Law as the Law has never said not to heal on the Sabbath. The Pharisees just showed us their lack of understanding and instead of learning from this, modern scholars read this from the perspective of a Pharisee rather than learning the lesson that in this case, even they learned.

Matthew 12:12 KJV Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

We will put this in context. By the pool of Bethesda, there sat a crippled man awaiting a healing miracle. But it is Sabbath, so he will just have to wait, right? Even the sound of that rings false and illogical. The Bible has never said such. Only Pharisee doctrine is so illiterate and uncaring. Messiah exposes this again and restores the Biblical Sabbath.

John 5:2 KJV Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. John 5:5–9 KJV And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

Now, it’s time to celebrate the miraculous healing power of Jesus(Yahusha). Is that not how any sane person would respond to a man crippled for 38 years, now walking? It would be insane to then argue with the miracle would it not? The Pharisees do and modern scholars take their side claiming Messiah just broke the Sabbath. That is illiterate.

John 5:5 KJV The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.

“Get back down there, cripple. What are you doing walking? You are not allowed to walk, it’s Sabbath.” Their issue is more with the carrying of his bed as we are not to carry burdens on the Sabbath. That is certainly Sabbath Law but this man was just healed from impotence for over 30 years. Messiah told Him to take His bed for a specific purpose. He is proving to the Pharisees they do not understand scripture. Their legalistic interpretation is wrong. If a man is healed, he is allowed to carry his bed leaving his place of bondage. Messiah commanded this in fact. This is not breaking the Sabbath. However, this time, the Pharisees are not ashamed. They desire people follow their traditions over the Bible. Modern scholars follow their way not that of the Bible on this topic and several others. They are not our saviors and we must prove all things for ourselves (1 Th. 5:21). Test everything.

John 5:16-17 KJV And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. But Jesus answered them, ‘My Father works hitherto, and I work.’”

They were so beholden to their interpretation and expansion of the ways of Sabbath that they were already seeking to kill Jesus(Yahusha) because of this. Law that is not even Law. The tenor and tone of the Sabbath has never denied someone healing. It has never denied your animal the right to food and drink. It has never denied a man who was just healed to relocate his existence. Those are Pharisee ways of reading the Law in legalism and bondage. That is not His Law which is freedom. They are not Heaven’s and Messiah represents the proper way to read and understand the Word. He is not breaking the Sabbath here. He is not leading a rebellion against the Law of Yahuah. If He did, He would have sinned and He did not. Instead He further tells us He and the Father work on the Sabbath. However, they work good just as the Temple Priests work good but it’s still work. It has always been permissible and this is not a new declaration. However, what did Messiah just do here? He works as Yahuah works. The Pharisees knew exactly what He meant. He was equating Himself as Elohim. For those saying He never said He was Elohim, He does many times. Again, the Pharisees understood this. Their accusation here is He broke the Sabbath. It is a false accusation that He already proved. He is not saying I am Elohim, therefore, I can do whatever I want. You will find several pulpits espousing such. He is saying the Sabbath has never required the sick to continue to be sick. It has never required your animal to starve. It has never required legalism over miracles and a man who is crippled can even relocate his bed from his place of bondage. He is proving the Pharisees do not know His Sabbath, nor Yahuah nor Him.

John 5:18 KJV Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

Jesus(Yahusha) then explains that not only does He feel this way and read the Word this way, so does the Father. He is only doing what the Father does meaning this is the way it has always been. He is exploiting their weakness in not knowing the scripture and the tone and tenor of His Law which they add to and misinterpret most of the time. Their interpretations turn Torah against Torah He says (Mark 7:9). Scholars are following doctrine rebuked by Messiah Himself.

John 5:19 KJV Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

This conversation continues as they hate what He represents – the authentic, pure Word in it’s origin. This is because they change it so that it looks different in their age. They add to it with their leaven as He warns many times. They usurp the throne of Yahuah and alter His relationship into a legal document to which they keep adding. Worse, they are not even in covenant with Him as He is not their God. Just as laws in many nations today that are of Pharisee origin not Bible, they continue to multiply the regulation in order to enslave mankind. They do not even believe Torah and the rest of scripture.

John 5:46-47 KJV For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

Pharisees do not believe Moses or Torah? What? They sing Torah! Torah! Torah! to this day. They appear to worship the Torah even. This is only in appearance. They do not know nor believe Torah and Pharisees (modern Judaism) has no understanding nor authority to represent the Word. They represent Talmud not Torah. What part of Torah as well were they not reading having already rejected even in the 1st Century? The Book of Jubilees which Messiah and the Apostles quote for significant doctrine and the exiled Temple Priests in Qumran/ Bethabara label it as Torah and apply it so. Review our Torah Test on that book for yourself because

you will never learn that from these scholars who follow Pharisees. In fact, Jesus(Yahusha) takes this even deeper on the Sabbath to prove His point. Realize He is a Creator there at Creation and He is Lord of the Sabbath. Sabbath is a day of rest even from Creation. However, He reaches down in the dirt and molds clay into what is likely an eyeball or parts thereof as He “made the clay.” He, then, fully heals the blind man who opens his eyes. This may well have been a Creation as that is power He possesses. We can only speculate on that but what we do know is He was proving it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. This blind man did not have to watch (pun intended) his miracle pass by.

John 9:14 KJV And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

As they read, some are already objecting with this next story out of context. The disciples were hungry on the Sabbath Day as they were about ministry. Are they really any different from the ox Messiah discussed before? Are they not allowed to eat? Were they supposed to starve yet your ox is not? Messiah explains this with historical precedence that these scholars do not even bother to read it seems. They again cut off the story and stop before He teaches. They are certainly not Bible scholars when they do so.

Matthew 12:1-2 KJV At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.

“Ah!!! Gotcha! We caught you lawbreakers who pick and eat corn on the Sabbath.” What law did they break? None. They were ministering and they, as the Temple Priests and as David and his men needed to eat, ate the showbread from the Temple. Do the Temple Priests break the Sabbath every Sabbath? Of course not, they are ministering to Yahuah but it is work. It is permissible work on the Sabbath. David and his men were supposed to starve? Just like your ox, there is never any intention of

the Sabbath for men to starve. Jesus(Yahusha) is exploiting legalism here. He is demonstrating that the Pharisees are only legalistic and do not even understand the tone of the Sabbath. They read the words but they do not know what it is about. Yet, the modern church uses their inept interpretations and ignores Messiah’s teachings. They turn and ridicule what He says siding with Pharisees. It is time we all put them in the seat of the Pharisee where they belong and rebuke them.

Matthew 12:3-5 KJV But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests? Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

What David did was lawful and never truly forbidden on the Sabbath as man’s need to survive outweighs a letter of the Law. They had a right to eat above the commandment. This is not new as the Temple Priests break the Sabbath every week if one assesses this the Pharisee way. The Bible way says they did not break the Sabbath nor did David nor did the disciples.

Matthew 12:6-8 KJV But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple. But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

Messiah really goes for it then. He is teaching them a lesson and He is clarifying He is Elohim. Literally, they are talking to the one who will judge all of these actions and He is telling us all how He judges. He judged David guiltless in this act of eating the showbread, the Temple Priests guiltless in working on the Sabbath, the man who waters his cattle guiltless and the disciples who satisfied their hunger while about ministry

on the Sabbath, guiltless. That is not breaking the Sabbath. It is teaching the Sabbath and it’s original intent over Pharisee application of the Law in legalism. In fact, He goes to great lengths to teach His Sabbath throughout the Gospels yet these same Pharisee-loving scholars, will tell you He did not even teach it but just broke it. That is illiterate as they place themselves in the seat of the scornful Pharisee. He declares He is greater than the Temple. You do realize the gravity of that right? Yes, He says He is Elohim many times. We know He was a Creator that means He is Elohim and He Created the Sabbath. We have the account of Sabbath from the horse’s mouth – the Lord of the Sabbath. Instead, we ignore what He says Sabbath is and use Pharisee doctrine to ridicule His own words. Let’s look at His words in context.

Matthew 12:9-12 KJV And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue: And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him. And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

Where in all of the Old Testament do we ever find that one cannot heal on the Sabbath? It is not there. It’s an assumption that healing is work. However, healing is mercy not work. This is what Messiah is clearly demonstrating. It is Pharisee doctrine because Pharisees don’t heal people. In fact, they harm them. However, they wish to stop you from healing someone on the Sabbath and they tried to entrap Him once again. Is a man not better than a sheep that he too is entitled healing and deliverance even on the Sabbath? Messiah, the Judge of all, says it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days. The next arena most modern scholars will attempt mischaracterization is that of the Sermon on the Mount where many of them claim He established new Law. We will examine this next.