A critical examination of the eight texts referring to the first day of the week points out these Sunday events:

1. The women came to the tomb on the first day of the week (Matthew 28:1).

2. “When the Sabbath was over” the women resumed their work or secular tasks on the first day of the week (Mark 16:1, 2).

3. Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene early the first day of the week (Mark 16:9).

4. Jesus’ followers resumed their secular activities (Luke 24:1).

5. Mary went to the grave of Jesus and found the tomb empty on the first day of the week (John 20:1).

6. The disciples gathered together “for fear of the Jews” (not for worship) on the first day of the week (John 20:19).

7. Paul asked church members to take account of their funds on the first day of the week, and “set aside a sum of money” for the poor at Jerusalem (1 Corinthians 16:1, 2). The passage does not mention any religious meeting.

8. In Acts 20:7 Luke speaks of Paul’s preaching on the first day of the week at an incidental farewell meeting. Of course Paul preached every day, and the apostles broke bread daily (Acts 2:46).

None of these scriptures suggest that the apostles intended to stop observing the seventh-day Sabbath. These men mentioned no change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week. There is clearly no New Testament evidence for a change of the Sabbath from Saturday, the seventh day of the week, to Sunday, the first day of the week. The change came after the days of Jesus and the Apostles, so we must turn to history to see when and how the change came about.