… of healings on the sabbath (Mark 1:21f.; Mark 3:1f.; Luke 13:10f.; Luke 14:1f.; John 5:9; John 9:14f.).
His (Jesus’) own (first) coming meant that the seventh and last day, the great day of Yahweh, had dawned, and healing was the specific Word of God that He had come to accomplish on this day ... Thus He not only did not break the sabbath with this work but genuinely sanctified and kept it. He was free also, and particularly, to do good and not evil on the sabbath, i.e., to save life and not to destroy it (Mk. 3:4). - Barth, K., Church dogmatics, Volume V: Index, with Aids for the Preacher (p. 497).
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