[Diego1618]

[Isaiah 58:13] If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

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

Many folks have suggested to me there may be a contradiction in these two passages.

What would be your answer...........Douglas?

[DouglasKC]

[Isaiah 58:13] If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
[Mark 2:27] And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Many folks have suggested to me there may be a contradiction in these two passages.
What would be your answer...........Douglas?

I think you know as well if not better than me old friend... :-)

The first thing I would do is to remember that the same person, Jesus Christ, said both things.

Second is that scripture can't be contradictory.

In Mark, Jesus was being chastised by the Pharisee's who had put their own rules and burdens, mostly non-scritpural, on the sabbath.

Their manmade rules and traditions had turned the sabbath from being a delight to making it a burden.

Christ told them the original intent of the sabbath...it was made for mankind to be a benefit for mankind. To be a delight, something healthy and good.

Mar 2:28 “Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.”

What's great is that Jesus affirms the sabbath and identfies himself as the Lord of that very same sabbath...or looked at another way as the author of Isaiah 58:13,14!