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NASB | Colossians 2:16 ¶ Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day-- |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Colossians 2:16 ¶ Therefore let no one judge you in regard to food and drink or in regard to [the observance of] a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day. |
Subject: what sabbath does it refer to? |
Bible Note: Here is something important regarding the Sabbath which you touch on ever-so-briefly here, but needs to be addressed directly: Jesus kept the entire law of God perfectly to the complete and total satisfaction of His Father in heaven. That would include the Fourth Commandment. If He violated God's understanding of His own law, he was not sinless and we are still in our own sins. Therefore, Jesus was undoubtedly a Sabbath-keeper. The question becomes, however, how did Jesus' (perfect) understanding of what it means to keep the Sabbath completely differ from that of the Pharisees? The reason I bring up this point is that many Christians are under the impression that Jesus ignored the Sabbath or disregarded it. That is impossible to say if we say that Jesus fulfilled the Law. Therefore, those passages in which Jesus' confrontation with the Pharisees need to be viewed in the context of Jesus allegedly thumbing his nose at the Sabbath, but what exactly it means to follow Exodus 20:9-11. --Joe! |