What does the Bible say about the

Sabbath ?

Old Testament Scriptures

Genesis 2:2,3, "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made....And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."                (the Sabbath was created, blessed, and sanctified, for all mankind, before the existance of any Hebrews [Jews])

Exodus 20:8-11, " Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."            (the sabbath was commanded to be remember)

Exodus 31:13, "Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you."             (it is a 'sign' between the Lord and His people)

Isaiah 58:13-14, "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it."           (His promise to you for remembering His sabbaths)

Ezekiel 20:12, "Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them."           (His gift of the sabbath, so that we may know Him)

New Testament Scriptures

Mark 2:27-28, "And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:  Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath." (Jesus speaking)            (the Lord claims the sabbath as His day, a day made for man)

Luke 4:16, "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read." (speaking about Jesus)              (Jesus kept the sabbath, according to the commandment)

Acts 13:42, "And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath."               (Jews and Gentiles alike remembered the sabbath; the 7th day)

Acts 13:44, "And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God."               (Even after the death of  Jesus, the sabbath was kept)

Acts 17:2, "And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,"              (the Apostle Paul kept the sabbath)

Hebrews 4:2-11, " For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.  For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.  For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.  And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.  Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:  Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.  For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.  There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.  Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief."               (the sabbath is a 'rest'. If Jesus had transfered that rest to another day, would He not afterward have spoken of that day? Yet, He died leaving the sabbath to remian as a rest for God's people, both Jew and Gentile alike, It is a perpetual Holy day of rest, for all generations)