“But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day.” Matt. 24:20.
Note.—Christ's experience with the Jews, the chosen and professed people of God at that time, respecting the Sabbath is but a type of what, according to prophecy, is to occur in the last days. Already it is beginning to find its parallel in the movement to enforce Sunday observance by law. See readings on pages [271], [484], [488].
The Sabbath In The New Testament
Paul On The Way To Assos. "And they ... rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment." Luke 23:56.
1. According to the New Testament, what day immediately precedes the first day of the week?
“In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week.” Matt. 28:1.
Note.—According to the New Testament, therefore, the Sabbath had passed when the first day of the week began.