Luke 4:16 WEB He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
Acts 17:2 WEB Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

A point of confusion that may come up after looking into the Sabbath is when it was. I know I once held the belief it was Sunday. I distinctly remember listening to a podcast once and a person was telling a story about meeting someone on an airplane. That person mentioned he was excited for sundown as it was the Sabbath, to which the person mentioned it was Friday night. I turned it off and thought to myself "idiot, the Sabbath is Sunday."

However, if you look into the history of the Sabbath, you can quickly see that it isn't Sunday, but Friday night to Saturday night, often just shortened to say Saturday. Many historical records show the Jews of the time of Jesus were keeping a Saturday Sabbath. There are even Roman historians (Cassius Dio, Frontinus, & Tacitus) of the time stating the Jews were resting on Saturn's Day. When you look into the word for Saturday in other languages, you will find many that have a word very similar to Sabbath or Shabbat (the Hebrew word for Sabbath), including the Greek word for Saturday (Sabbato). The Roman calendar at that time was already a 7-day week, as it was once an 8-day week. A few hundred years later when it was switched from Julian to Gregorian, the 7-day cycle did not change. A Saturday today would still have been a Saturday back during Jesus' time.

Couple these facts with Scripture and we see that Jesus and Paul were observing a Saturday Sabbath. I point out Paul because many will take Acts 20:7 to say they were doing Sabbath on Sunday now. If that was the case, how could Paul visit the synagogues to reason with the Scriptures? No one would be there. If there was a Saturday crew and then a Sunday crew, why would Paul reason with the Sunday crew? Wouldn't those be the ones already believing in Jesus?

These historical records also put away any arguments saying the Sabbath changes month to month. If this were the case, these historical records would indicate that. Which also brings up the point of "any day could be Sabbath in Jesus". There is no Scripture, or historical evidence to back this up. We see time and time again that when Sabbath is mentioned, it was Saturday.

Jesus tells us to follow him and do what He did. He rested on Saturday. Paul tells us to imitate him as he imitates Christ. He rested on Saturday. Are you doing what these are asking?

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