Did Jesus keep the Sabbath...if your answer is no, then...?

Yes, Jesus kept the Sabbath. The point he was making when the elders were upset at him for doing certain things on that day was that people had put their own rules and restrictions into what the Lord had instituted. They were making it about them, not about God. Jesus showed them the proper way to observe various instructions from God, which upset their man-made traditions.

Jesus worked on the sabbath, and admitted He worked on the sabbath.

The problem here is that you believe that breaking the letter of the law always results in sin. Not so. Jesus showed that the priests worked on sabbaths and were blameless. David ate the showbread that was not lawful for him to eat, and was blameless.

Also, you do not understand that you can "fulfill" the law in the spirit while breaking the law in the letter. However, when people are made to focus on the letter of the law, they tend to be unable to comprehend the spirit of the law.

John 5:16  And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

17  But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

You can either accept what the Scriptures plainly say, or believe the convoluted explanations your pastors give you in order to get around the truth of Scripture.

His work was not a case of violating the "man-made ordinances" added to it. The prohibition regarding the sabbath plainly states the people were not to do "any" work on the sabbath.

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Originally in the laws that God gave to Moses, the Sabbath was the last day of the week (what we now call Saturday). This was observed through the years and Jesus also observed the Sabbath as all the other Jews did.

During the last years of Jesus' life, he changed the law of the Sabbath. He told us to meet once a week to remember his death and to take the bread and wine (he did not state the date that we should meet, he just said once a week). So the law has changed, we do not need to honour the exact day of the week that was originally stated in the law of Moses, but we do need to honour the Sabbath - on whatever date we observe - some churches have Saturday, some have Sunday services.

Mar 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Mar 2:28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

It is pretty clear above that Jesus is the Lord of the sabbath. It was made for man, not the other way around. It was made for man to rest, not to rule over him. Man all through history has devised ways to bound up the soul with religious rules, when Jesus wants us to KNOW him and have a relationship with him, and through this relationship we are FREE. And real, and able to learn the Truth, which is Jesus! That is why the Old Testament was laws which God wanted to prove to man, you can't live by laws, all pointing the way to Jesus, the New Covenant, the one of RELATIONSHIP, KNOWING GOD, UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL., not at a distance, which is what laws did, they kept you from him. Just follow the rule and you will be ok......

Jesus was completely explicit about the Sabbath, that God made the Sabbath for man, and did not make man for the Sabbath. He used a parable of a man whose sheep falls into a pit on the Sabbath, asks if anyone thought he should wait until the next day to rescue it.

So yeah, he was setting an example by showing that the Sabbath rule was not set in stone.

The Lord Jesus kept the Sabbath... because He kept the law while

He lived under the first Covenant, but that ended at the cross...

Sabbath is EVERY day for Christians, because we have entered

into the Lord's rest. We're now in His New Covenant - under grace

and liberty....

For any group or organization to make an issue of which day is

correct for the Sabbath, that's a device of control & separation -

and is what cults say to keep people under bondage.

If it's about which day we assemble to worship, again there

is no restriction... for many it is on Sunday, and may also

include weekdays.

The Lord's new covenant church people receive the Holy

Spirit in their heart, and the word says:

"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord

is, there is liberty" (2 Corinthians 3:17)

"Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in

respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath

days" (Colossians 2:16)

"One person esteems one day above another; another esteems

every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind"

(Romans 14:5)

"Therefore let us not judge one another any more, but rather

resolve this, not to put a stumbling-block or a cause of offence

in our brother's way" (Romans 14:13)

The Jerusalem Decree for Gentiles :

"Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you

with words, unsettling your souls, saying, “You must be circumcised and

keep the law”- to whom we gave no such commandment.

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater

burden than these necessary things; that you abstain from things offered to

idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality.

If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell."

(Acts 15: 24, 28-29)

God doesn't change, but we do. Christ's sacrifice overcame the Law because no one could live up to it, and it resulted in death. As far as the Sabbath is concerned. Christ said the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. A day of rest. Because man will work you to death. Throw you in a hole, and work the next man to death.

His intention was to bring in the New Covenant, abolishing the Old.

The Scripture clearly says that Jesus broke the Sabbath.

Jhn 5:16 ¶ And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

Jhn 5:17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

Jhn 5:18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

The priests had always "broken" the Sabbath by working in their ministry.

Luk 6:1 ¶ And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing [them] in [their] hands.

Luk 6:2 And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?

Luk 6:3 And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;

Luk 6:4 How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?

Luk 6:5 And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

Since Jesus is High Priest, He not only could work on the Sabbath, but must according to His Father's will. Since Christians are a royal priesthood, we also work.

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RE Jesus Street - Was Jesus guilty of everything He was accused of? Is it true or not that Jesus was without sin?

Jesus DID break the Sabbath. The Scripture says-

"Jhn 5:18 ...he not only had broken the sabbath..."

Breaking the Sabbath was not a sin for Jesus since He was the prophet bringing in the New Covenant and thereby ending the Law Covenant regulations, including the Sabbath regulation.

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Jesus not only broke the Sabbath, but He taught others to break the Sabbath, too.

Jhn 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

Jhn 5:9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

Jhn 5:10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry [thy] bed.

Jhn 5:11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

Jhn 5:12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

Jhn 5:13 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in [that] place.

Carrying a burden IS working according to the Law of Moses and therefore sinful while that regulation was in effect.

"Jer 17:21 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day..."

So if the Law was still in effect then Jesus was teaching others to sin and that would make Jesus a sinner, too. The only way that Jesus could be sinless is if the Law was passing away.

Jesus kept the Sabbath according to God's law

Not the horsepucky the pharisees invented.

No the Sabbath is part of the law that He fullfilled, if you are going to keep part of the law, you have to keep it all, and then it will not save you. This was the purpose and message of the Grace of Jesus Christ

Get ready for an avalanche of lame excuses on this one.

Matthew 5:17-18 (Christ's words): "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."

Have heaven and earth disappeared? The greatest enemy of Christianity is its own favorite holy text.