The Lord of the Sabbath And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.” (Mark 2:27–28) In Mark 2:23–28, the Lord Jesus Christ cuts through the Pharisees’ legalism to recover what the Sabbath was always meant to be: a gift to man and a day belonging to its Lord. 1. The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. The...