Power of the Sabbath

​“And on the same day was the sabbath.”  (John 5:9)

OUR Divine Master healed men every day of the week; from the first day even to the close of the seventh day, he went about doing good, and healing all manner of diseases. The healing virtue did not flow from him occasionally, but perpetually. It was not like that famous pool which was only now and then touched with the angel’s wing, and so made salutary to the sick folk lying around; but whoever stepped into the pool of Christ’s mercy found healing at any hour of the day or night.

Still, it is worthy of notice that the Lord Jesus frequently made the Sabbath to be a high day of grace and blessing. There was, I suppose, something about that day that led him more specially to display his great power upon it; or, probably, he felt bound to meet the superstition of the Pharisees, and he met it by a flood-tide of mercy upon that day to the sons of men. I have read to you the records of six notable miracles which were worked by our Lord upon the Sabbath-day. I need not read them again, but I will just remind you that those miracles comprised the casting out of a devil in the synagogue, the healing of a man whose hand was withered, the lifting up of a woman who had been bound by infirmity for eighteen years, the instantaneous cure of the dread disease of dropsy, the recovering of a man who had been afflicted with palsy for thirty-eight years so that he could not stir, and the opening of the eyes of one who was born blind; — six notable miracles to render the Sabbath-day most famous as a day of the display of Christ’s power. (Charles Spurgeon)

​GiGi❤️

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