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NASB | Acts 16:13 And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we were supposing that there would be a place of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had assembled. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 16:13 and on the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate to the bank of the [Gangites] river, where we thought there would be a place of prayer, and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had come there. |
Bible Question:
The Sabbath mentioned in the bible is it only to be observed by Isreal as convanent between them and god. and did the sabbath had to be observed by the gentlies. |
Bible Answer: Yes, the Sabbath is to be observed only by Israel. No, the Sabbath never was binding upon Gentiles or upon the Church. (The Forum archives contain much discussion on the Sabbath. Please go to the left of your screen, click on Search, then use the Search function to look for entries that contain the word "Sabbath". There you will see a number of postings and hopefully one or more will answer the question to your satisfaction.) sabbath "(1) The sabbath ("cessation") appears in Scripture as the day of God's rest in the finished work of creation. (Genesis 2:2,3). For 2500 years of human life absolutely no mention is made of it. Then the sabbath was revealed (Exodus 16:23; Nehemiah 9:13,14); made a part of the law (Exodus 20:8-11) and invested with the character of a "sign" between Jehovah and Israel, and a perpetual reminder to Israel of their separation to God (Exodus 31:13-17). It was observed by complete rest (Exodus 35:2,3) and by Jehovah's express order a man was put to death for gathering sticks on the sabbath day. (Numbers 15:32-36). Apart from maintaining the continued burnt-offering (Numbers 28:9,) and its connection with the annual feasts ; (Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 23:3,8; Numbers 28:25) the seventh day sabbath was never made a day of sacrifice, worship, or any manner of religious service. It was simply and only a day of complete rest for man and beast, a humane provision for man's needs. In Christ's words, "The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath." (Mark 2:27). "(2) Our Lord found the observance of the day encrusted with rabbinical evasions (Matthew 12:2) and restrictions, wholly unknown to the law, so that He was Himself held to be a sabbath breaker by the religious authorities of the time. The sabbath will be again observed during the kingdom age (Isaiah 66:23). "(3) The Christian first day perpetuates in the dispensation of grace the principle that one-seventh of the time is especially sacred, but in all other respects is in contrast with the sabbath. One is the seventh day, the other the first. The sabbath commemorates God's creation rest, the first day Christ's resurrection. On the seventh day God rested, on the first day Christ was ceaselessly active. The sabbath commemorates a finished creation, the first day a finished redemption. The sabbath was a day of legal obligation, the first day one of voluntary worship and service. The sabbath is mentioned in Acts only in connection with the Jews, and in the rest of the N.T. but twice. (Colossians 2:16; Hebrews 4:4). In these passages the seventh day sabbath is explained to be to the Christian not a day to be observed, but a type of the present rest into which he enters when "he also ceases from his own works" and trusts Christ." --JVH0212 "In essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, and in all things charity." |
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