Did The Apostles Change the Sabbath?

James, the first leader of the early Christian church, wrote concerning the Ten Commandments:

“For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. For he who said, ‘Do not commit adultery,’ also said, ‘Do not murder.’ If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.”
—James 2:10, 11.

Luke, a physician and evangelist in the early church, reports:

“On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.”
—Acts 16:13.

Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, who wrote much of the New Testament, affirms:

“For somewhere he [God] has spoken about the seventh day in these words: ‘And on the seventh day God rested from all his work’ [see Genesis 2:2]. . . . There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God.”
—Hebrews 4:4, 9.