Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in which no one had yet been laid. Jesus kept the Sabbath (Luke 4:16 23:54, 56 24:1) until his death, which Luke indicates occurred on the day before the Sabbath: "Going to Pilate, asked for Jesus' body. God reiterated the Sabbath at Sinai (Exodus 20:8-11), and the Jews were still observing the seventh day when Jesus was born. But it did not confuse the days of the week Friday still follows Thursday, Saturday still follows Friday, and so on and so forth.Įxodus 16 recounts a series of weekly Sabbath miracles over a period of forty years. In 1582, Gregory changed the calendar so that Friday, October 5, became Friday, October 15, creating the Gregorian calendar we use today. So by the 1580s, the calendar and the solar cycle were ten days off. In reality, the year is 11 minutes less than 365 ¼ days. The Julian calendar, instituted by Julius Caesar around 46 B.C., calculated the length of the year as 365 ¼ days. Nevertheless, many rationalize that it's impossible to verify which day of the week is actually the biblical Sabbath because Pope Gregory XIII changed the calendar. Though the world's language groups have evolved so as to be unintelligible from each other, the word for the seventh day of the week has remained fairly recognizable.įor the thousands of years since Judaism began, an entire nation of Jews has kept track of the weekly cycle and observed the seventh day Sabbath, sometimes even without a calendar. Babylonian, in use hundreds of years before Abraham or the giving of the Ten Commandments at Sinai, calls the seventh day of the week sa-ba-tu, meaning "rest day."Įven today more than 100 languages worldwide, many of them unrelated to ancient Hebrew, use the word "Sabbath" for Saturday-and none of them designate any other day as a day of rest. William Meade Jones created this "Chart of the Week," listing the name for the seventh day in 160 languages, including some of the most ancient (shown below). As languages developed, the name for the seventh day of the week remained "rest day." In the mid 19th century, Dr. Nearly every culture, from Babylon through modern times, rested on the seventh day. Language reflects the customs of the culture that speaks it. "The seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God" (Exodus 20:10). It's logical, then, for God to have designated the last day of the week a day of rest. The very word "sabbath" means rest, and to rest implies that you have labored. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done" (Genesis 2:2, 3). "By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Despite doctrinal differences on various other topics, most Christians agree that a day of rest is an integral part of the Christian life.
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