In the second passage from the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus makes another startling claim that He is greater than the Sabbath as ...

It is ironic that Jesus and His disciples were harassed by the Pharisees over the Sabbath (John 5:18). Jesus spoke out against the Pharisee's merciless observance of the Sabbath (Matt 12:1-8 ...

Jesus is explaining that human need is more important than man made laws and regulations: "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath” Jesus further confirms his identity and ...

The gospel lectionary reading for Lent 2 in this Year C is Luke 13.31–35, and once again the lectionary does us something of ...

Jesus apparently knew many, some, all of these books. The synagogue service on the Sabbath would consist of communal group study of various collections from these books. Jesus in his teaching ...

We are a week into daylight saving time, and some of us are not getting the rest we need! It seems to take a couple of weeks for our bodies to adjust to the one hour difference every time we change ...

The move from Saturday to Sunday, from Sabbath to the Lord’s Day, is intimately connected to the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. As John Paul II notes, “there emerged a unique connection ...

I think as most people in his period who are not landed gentry, Jesus would have worked for a living for six days a week and rested on the Sabbath.... If Sepphoris is such a cosmopolitan city ...