CHRIST AND HIS DISCIPLES IN THE CORN-FIELDS
"The Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day." Matt. 12:8.
RETURNING FROM THE SAVIOUR'S TOMB
"They returned,... and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment." Luke 23:56.
GLIMPSES OF SABBATH KEEPING AFTER NEW TESTAMENT TIMES
Not at once did the innovation of Sunday observance set aside the Sabbath of the Lord in the practice of even the general church. And through history, when the general church had fallen away, we catch glimpses here and there of faithful witnesses to God's holy Sabbath truth.
First Centuries
An old English writer, Professor Brerewood, of Gresham College, London, put in shortest phrase what many writers say:
"They know little who do not know that the ancient Sabbath did remain and was observed by the Eastern churches three hundred years after our Saviour's passion."—"Treatise on the Sabbath," p. 77.