<p>12:8&nbsp;<em>For the Son of man is Lord-</em>&nbsp;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>
<p><em>Of the Sabbath-</em>&nbsp;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 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 (Mk. 2:27).</p>