Then Jesus said to them, the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath — the authority claim is the chapter's most sweeping: the Son of Man is Lord (kyrios) of the Sabbath. Not merely a teacher who interprets the Sabbath but the Lord who gave it — the one who made the Sabbath for humanity has the authority to determine its application. The claim is simultaneously humanizing (the Sabbath exists for human flourishing) and divine (the Son of Man rules what God created).

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