28Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
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For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-28)Christ had been put to justify himself in conversing with publicans and sinners : here he is put to justify his disciples; and in what they do according to his will he will justify them, and bear them out. I. He justifies them in their not fasting , which was turned to their reproach by the Pharisees. Why do the Pharisees and the disciples of John fast? They used to fast , the Pharisees fasted twi…
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