The sabbath

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A person in another online forum asked me why it was that the sabbath was changed to sunday. He claims that even Jesus worshipped on saturday before and after his death. I think it was changed because of Jesus’ victory over death. But I am not sure. Any insight into this would be trully appreciated.
 
Acts 20:7 - And on the first day of the week, when we were assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, being to depart on the morrow: and he continued his speech until midnight.

Early Christians celebrated on Sunday because it was the day Jesus rose from the dead. (BTW, breaking bread in this context is not just “eating a meal”.) It looks like Paul might have been the one who changed it to Sunday.
 
The early Christians celebrated the Sabbath on Saturday, often attending synagogue and all that. (Though they didn’t have to.)

But Sunday, the day of the Lord’s resurrection, was called the Lord’s Day (Dominicus dies in Latin, Kyriake in Greek). That was the day the early Christians got up very early and went to Mass, because Sunday was a Roman, Greek, and Jewish work day.

It was only much later that Christians began calling Sunday “the Sabbath”. (And sometimes they even called Saturday “the Preparation day” (Paraskeve in Greek), just as Jews called Friday the Day of Preparation, because it was the day before the Sabbath.) In some languages, though, Sunday is called “Resurrection”.

From the earliest times, Christians celebrated Friday as a day of penitence (because that was when Christ died) and Sunday as a day of joy.
 
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