What Does Mark 2:28 Mean?
So the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.THE KEY
Even the day set apart for rest has no authority beyond the Son of Man who governs it.
THE MEANING
The Son of Man’s authority extends into the Sabbath itself. The day set apart for rest remains under his lordship, not beyond it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a sacred rule can claim final authority over the human life it serves.
THE ROOT
κύριός
kyrios
GROWS FROM
κυρ-
Authority, validity, and mastery.
“Lord” in this verse is kyrios. The Greek κύριός belongs to the κυρ- family of authority and validity. Its claim reaches even the Sabbath: the set-apart rest is under the Son of Man’s lordship.
ALSO GROWS
kyros: Authority, validity, prevailing force
κύρος
It makes visible the authority carried within κύριος: the Lord’s standing is a claim of rule.
kyroō: To make valid, confirm, ratify
κυρόω
This branch shows authority giving something its standing, echoing the verse’s claim over the Sabbath.
σαββάτου
sabbatou
GROWS FROM
σαββατ-
Sabbath, the set-apart rest.
The Greek stem σαββατ- carries the Hebrew שבת (shabbat, Sabbath and cessation) into this verse. Its Greek branches name both keeping the Sabbath and Sabbath-rest, showing that the rest remains present even as the verse places it under the Son of Man’s authority.
ALSO GROWS
sabbatizō: To keep the Sabbath
σαββατίζω
The same stem names the practice associated with the day whose authority this verse addresses.
sabbatismos: Sabbath-rest
σαββατισμός
This related form appears in Hebrews 4:9, where Sabbath-rest remains for God’s people.
THE PATTERN
Sabbath is set apart as rest for human life and remains under God’s authority.
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your sojourner who is within your gates.He said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.Therefore a Sabbath settling remains for the people of God.THE THREAD
Therefore a Sabbath settling remains for the people of God.Mark’s σαββάτου (sabbatou, Sabbath) and Hebrews’ σαββατισμός (sabbatismos, Sabbath-rest) share the Greek σαββατ- stem. Mark places the Sabbath under the Son of Man’s authority; Hebrews shows that its rest remains for God’s people.
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