The Sabbath

The Sabbath The Sabbath in simple form is the seventh day in a Hebrew week,

starting Friday

evening, ending Saturday evening but it is different for Christians,

who celebrate the

Sabbath on Sunday. However, in this essay I will be going further into

the true meaning

of the Sabbath, how it is presented in Mark’s Gospel and how different

Christian

denominations worship on the Sabbath. The Sabbath was the day God

rested after

creating the world, this was the 7th day. The Sabbath for the Jews

meant the prohibition

of cooking, gathering manna, plowing and reaping, lighting a fire,

gathering wood,

carrying burdens, pressing grapes, bringing in sheaves and loading

animals. The

Sabbath is celebrated differently in the New Testament, Jesus saw the

Sabbath as a

burden, and he thought that the Scribes and Pharisees had put an huge

burden on men’s

shoulders rather than taking the burden off their shoulders.

"The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath" (Mark, 2,

27). In Jesus’

argument with the Scribes and Pharisees he defended his disciples for

plucking ears of

corn to help a hungry person and he argued that Sabbath is not broken

in cases of

necessity or by acts of charity as is the way that his disciples were

accused of ‘breaking

the Sabbath’. The Sabbath is now celebrated on Sundays by Christians

celebrating

mass.

In Mark’s Gospel, Mark speaks of the Sabbath in a very controversial