The Sabbath in John's Gospel

Studying the Sabbath in as much item as possible brought me eventually to the narratives related by the apostle John. First, the healing at the pool of Bethesda:

John 5:8-18 [portions]. "Jesus said to [the man], Rise, take up your bed and walk. And immediately the adult male was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that twenty-four hours was the Sabbath. The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to transport your bed... the adult male [departed and] told the Jews that it was Jesus Of Nazareth who had made him well. For this ground the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus Of Nazareth answered them, My Father have got been working until now, and I have been working. Therefore the Jews sought all the more than to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that Supreme Being was His Father, making Himself be with God."

Here is a ground for exclusions to the Sabbath rule: The ageless work of Supreme Being never stops. The creative activity was an scattered six-day event after which came the permanent Sabbath picture. His work of creative activity is over, the stuff human race was completed in a mere six days. The human races are held together by the word He spoke. But His work of sustaining and lovingness for what He made never stops. So it is always proper to make on the Sabbath those things that are contemplations of the ageless sustaining clemency of God.

In Toilet 7 is another Sabbath rule espoused.

John 7:22-23. "...you circumcise a adult male on the Sabbath. If a adult male have Circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made a adult male completely well on the Sabbath? Bash not justice according to the visual aspect but justice with righteous judgment."

So here is Moses vs. Moses. Feast Of The Circumcision is an existent feat to be performed, a work. Yet in the hypocritical eyes of the Pharisees, its public presentation was Sabbath-friendly . There is no manner to acquire around the fact that some children's births are exactly eight years before the Sabbath. And eight years was the needed clip to wait to circumcise a new-born. They make not desire to interrupt one of Moses' laws, so in their thinking, Moses must have got approved the bending of one of Moses' laws. To give to Moses was an all right thing, but to give to the hurting and agony of a chap person could wait until the adjacent day. This was refuse thought to Jesus Of Nazareth and He told them so without doing harm to the law which He came not to destroy.

John's concluding Sabbath entry concerns the healing of the adult male born blind.

John 9:14-16. "Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus Of Nazareth made the clay and opened his eyes. Then the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, He set clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see. Therefore some of the Pharisees said, This Man is not from God, because He makes not maintain the Sabbath. Others said, How can a adult male who is a evildoer make such as signs? And there was a division among them."

You say, For a adult male who believed in Sabbath, Jesus Of Nazareth certainly was active on that day! Oh, He believed in it, all right. He is the Godhead Who spent the very first Sabbath rejoicing over the work he had made, and in the program for the adult male who would govern that creation. But His program from the beginning was simply that there be a weekly recollection of Who Supreme Being is, and what Supreme Being did. The entranceway of sinfulness clouded that purpose. Busy work force forgot the Day altogether. Religious work force later remembered the twenty-four hours but still obscured the meaning. Jesus Of Nazareth brought by illustration the instruction of the Sabbath back to where it began, just as He did with marriage, adultery, murder. He cut the tree of false instruction to its roots. He weeded the garden. It is for us to maintain the garden clean of these wicked plants, the irritants that choke the life from God's People.