Did The Disciples Change The Sabbath?

• Genesis 2:2, 3. It was the seventh day of the week that was first sanctified and set apart as the Sabbath of the Lord.BHB 81.11

• Exodus 20:8-11. It was the sameseventh day that the followers of the Saviour kept while He lay dead in Joseph’s new tomb. Luke 23:54-56.BHB 82.1

• Mark 16:1, 2. The Sabbath of the New Testament comes on the day before the first day of the week.BHB 82.2

• Luke 23:54-56; 24:1. From these verses we see that the Sabbath of the New Testament was the day between Friday, the preparation day, and Sunday, the first day of the week.BHB 82.3

• Acts 13:14, 15, 42-44. Paul preached in Ephesus on the Sabbath day.BHB 82.4

• Acts 16:12, 13. Work in Philippi opened with the Sabbath service.BHB 82.5

• Acts 17:2. Thessalonica church had Sabbath service.BHB 82.6

• Acts 18:4, 11. For one and half years Paul held Sabbath services in Corinth.BHB 82.7

• Acts 18:17. If the apostles had not kept the seventh-day Sabbath, Paul could not have said that they had done nothing against the customs of the Jews.BHB 82.8

• Acts 15:21. As late as the year 52 A.D., 21 years this side of the cross, in every city the Scriptures were “read in the synagogues every Sabbath day.” This Sabbath day was the same day that had been kept from the days of Moses.BHB 82.9

• Acts 13:42, 44. The Jews and believing Gentiles kept the same day for theBHB 82.10

• Sabbath. There is no mention in the New Testament of any change of the Sabbath to the first day of the week. The disciples did not change the Sabbath. The Great Controversy, 451; Prophets and Kings, 372.BHB 82.11