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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: Hello Joe, This is a good point, one that we should go further with. Your question, "How did Jesus' understanding of what it means to keep the sabbath completely differ from that of the pharisees?" I believe we first need to go to Matt 13:13 to see the difference between Jesus and the pharisees, out of the mouth of Jesus Himself. Matt 13:13 - Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. In Matt 13:14,15 Jesus explains the reason for them not hearing or seeing is because they do not seek to understand with their heart, but if they did they would be converted and healed. Jesus was sent here for the fact stated in Heb 2:14( to partake in the flesh and blood with the children and defeat death). He knew and understood the purpose and will of His Father with all clarity because He was the Father(John 1:1). He also understood Psalm 22:7-21 and that He was to be crucified as the means which enabled Him to defeat death and as we are told to blott out the handwriting of ordinances and all trespasses and sin by the nailing of Him to the cross.(Col 2:11-15). Col 2:14 - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing to His cross; What the pharisees, and others mentioned along the same lines as them, did not recognize or understand is that, they did not recognize the One they were waiting for, as stated in John 1:11("He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.") and also they did not understand what we are told in Mark 2:28("He is the Lord of the sabbath"). Which has led us to: John 1:16 - And of His fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. John 1:17 - For the law was given by Moses, but grace and the truth came by Jesus Christ. In the days of Moses there was grace(Ex 34:6,7), and the law itself was an exhibition of truth. But when Jesus Christ came, He was Himself the Truth, the very personification of truth(John 14:6), and His life and death were the supreme manifestation of grace. I don't feel that Jesus ignored the sabbath, perhaps many do, but my point is that Jesus is the sabbath, everyday, and He became it everyday, upon the nailing to the cross as stated in Col 2:14 and the pharisees differ because they didn't even know who Jesus was. Peace, casiv |