It wasn’t just a day of worship, it’s a day of sacrifice but does Jesus fulfill it as well? How does Jesus fulfill the Sabbath in his public ministry and in his passion and death? Well, I would suggest three things, three ways he fulfills the Sabbath.įirst and Foremost, number one, have you ever noticed how many healings Jesus does on the Sabbath? Why does he perform all of these healings on the Sabbath? It’s one of the things that gets him in trouble with the Jewish authorities. Anybody heard those words? Have you heard those words everlasting covenant? When was the last time you may have heard those words? It might have been at mass lately? The institution of the bread of the presence is a pre-figuration of what Jesus himself is going to do at the Last Supper whenever he pours out the bread and wine of the Eucharist and says “this is the blood of the new covenant”, the new and everlasting covenant that will be made in his sacrifice.Īlright, so that’s the Old Testament background of the Sabbath. This bread of the presence is special because it’s the only sacrifice that is called an everlasting covenant. So what Leviticus is saying here is that in addition to Sabbath rest and Sabbath worship, every seventh day the priest would offer a special sacrifice of bread, the bread of the presence, which was also accompanied by wine. And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the offerings by fire to the Lord, a perpetual due.” (Leviticus 24:5-8). God doesn’t mind his Temple being adorned with gold.Įvery sabbath day Aaron shall set it in order before the Lord continually on behalf of the people of Israel as a covenant for ever. …And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the table of pure gold. ![]() It’s your favorite devotional book to read, but let’s read it anyways just for the sake of refreshing our memories. I know you already have Leviticus memorized already. The showbread is just a pretty bad translation for this Hebrew bread called the lechem haPanim, the bread of the presence, that was offered as a sacrifice of the Sabbath day. You might have heard of the showbread if you hadn’t heard of the bread of the presence, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the Broadway, or musicals, or anything like that. Does that sound familiar? The bread of the presence? The bread of the presence is sometimes called the “showbread”. It was a sacrifice known as “the bread of the presence”. And guess what that sacrifice was? There’s only one sacrifice unique to the Sabbath. ![]() Just like the Tamid daily worship had a special sacrifice of a lamb and bread and wine tied to it, so too the Sabbath had a special sacrifice that had to be offered every Saturday, every seventh day of the week. And although it’s often forgotten by many modern scholars and modern Christians, for an ancient Jew, the Sabbath day wasn’t just a day of rest, it wasn’t just a day of worship, it was a day of a very specific sacrifice. Jesus’ observance of the Sabbath was slightly different than a modern Jew, because in Jesus’ day, unlike in modern Judaism, what did you have? You did not just have the synagogue, you also had a temple.
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