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Mark 2:27-28
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Mark 2:27-28
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
27 Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for man,[a] not man for the sabbath.(A) 28 [b]That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”
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- 2:27 The sabbath was made for man: a reaffirmation of the divine intent of the sabbath to benefit Israel as contrasted with the restrictive Pharisaic tradition added to the law.
- 2:28 The Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath: Mark’s comment on the theological meaning of the incident is to benefit his Christian readers; see note on Mk 2:10.
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