“and had shown a willingness to bend the law on the Sabbath”
He didn’t bend the law of the Sabbath, he correctly taught how the Sabbath should be treated and practiced as God had always meant it should be. He is the Lord of the Sabbath, the living word of God. There was no bending of any law, there is no inconsistency in him.
The Sabbath was for rest and relaxation...a time for reflection and a time for joy. The Sabbath was never meant to be a weekly funeral dirge!
I was responding to SampleMan’s post #610.
Comments on post #711 above the line were his.
Those below the line were mine.