<p>2:28 <em>Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath</em>- The &ldquo;of&rdquo; is supplied as guesswork by the translators; it could equally be left unsupplied, giving the sense of &ldquo;the Lord the Sabbath&rdquo;; or, &ldquo;Lord&nbsp;<em>on</em>&nbsp;the Sabbath&rdquo;. Mark in :27 adds that the Lord went on to teach that God's law was made for man, rather than man being built in such a way as to easily fit in with God's word. This could be the inspired comment of the Gospel writer, rather than the actual words of the Lord. Because the Sabbath law was made for human benefit and blessing, man is therefore above the Sabbath; and so &quot;the Son of Man&quot;, the quintessential and supreme human, the Lord Jesus, is &quot;Lord of the Sabbath&quot;. We see here an incidental proof of the utter humanity of the Lord Jesus; if something is true for man generally, then it is all the more true for Him, because He was also a man, although the supremest of all men. He could legally infringe the law, just as men like David did, because He understood that the intention of the law was for human blessing. If that intention was fulfilled, there was no need to keep the letter of the law. This of course can too easily become a slippery slope towards disobedience; and yet the other extreme is a legalistic obedience to the letter of a law, which results in not achieving what that law intended, which is blessing to man. &quot;Lord even of the Sabbath&quot; can be rendered 'Is also lord of the Sabbath'; as if what were true for man generally is all the more for Jesus. As David and the Lord's disciples were masters of the Sabbath, rather than being dominated by it and the associated legislation; so even more was the Lord Jesus Himself, as the archetypical man, &quot;the son of man&quot;, also lord of the Sabbath.</p><p>Here as elsewhere we see the juxtaposition of the Lord's humanity and His Lordship. His exaltation is precisely because He was human; He has authority to judge us because He was Son of man (Jn. 5:27). The Lordship of Jesus was predicated upon His obedience to death and exaltation (Acts 2:36), and yet Jesus was calmly confident that this would be achieved by Him; to the point that He could reason that He already was &quot;Lord&quot; and thereby able to abrogate the Sabbath and act as the ultimate temple.</p>