Mark 2:28

28 This is why the Human One is Lord even over the Sabbath."

Mark 2:28 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 2:28

Therefore the son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
] Meaning himself, who had a power not only to dispense with it, but to abrogate it as he did, with the rest of the rituals of the ceremonial law; (See Gill on Matthew 12:8). So that it did not become them to find fault with what his disciples did, with his leave and approbation.

Mark 2:28 In-Context

26 During the time when Abiathar was high priest, David went into God's house and ate the bread of the presence, which only the priests were allowed to eat. He also gave bread to those who were with him."

27 Then he said, "The Sabbath was created for humans; humans weren't created for the Sabbath.

28 This is why the Human One is Lord even over the Sabbath."

Footnotes

• [a]. Or Son of Man