In consideration of the fact that the women sent to anoint the body of Jesus, all the Apostles, all the disciples, and all the faithful Christians for the first few hundred years after the crucifixion of Christ kept the seventh day Sabbath holy according to the Scriptures, it cannot be claimed that Sabbath was changed to Sunday after the death of our precious Saviour, as many assert.

Consider something that is often overlooked when discussing the seventh-day Sabbath.

Luke 23:54–56 “And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.”

Think about that for a moment.

These women had personally followed Jesus. They had witnessed His ministry, His crucifixion, and His burial. Yet, immediately following His death, they continued to observe the seventh-day Sabbath according to God’s Commandment.

The Apostles and disciples likewise continued to observe the Sabbath. We repeatedly find Paul and other believers worshipping and preaching on the seventh day throughout the book of Acts.

And nowhere in Scripture do we find Jesus, His Apostles, or any Biblical authority declaring that the seventh-day Sabbath had been abolished, transferred, or replaced with Sunday.

If the Sabbath had truly been changed, where is the commandment?

Where did God declare that the day He sanctified and made holy at Creation was now to be replaced by the first day of the week?

Even the historical practices of early Christians cannot establish a divine commandment that Scripture never gives. The seventh-day Sabbath continued to be observed by Christians in the centuries following Christ, even as Sunday observance also developed in various Christian communities by way of the Catholic church.

Beloved, we must distinguish between what God commanded and what men established through tradition.

God said:

Exodus 20:8 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.”

God blessed and sanctified the seventh day at Creation (Genesis 2:2–3). Jesus Himself declared that the Sabbath was made for man (Mark 2:27).

And Jesus Christ is Lord also of the Sabbath (Mark 2:28).

We do not have the authority to change what God has sanctified. Nor should we accept a tradition of men as though it were a Commandment of God.

The question is not what religious institutions eventually adopted. The question is simple:

**Where does God’s Word say that His seventh-day Sabbath was changed to Sunday?**

It doesn’t.

Let us follow the Scriptures rather than the traditions of men.