Mt. 28:1 Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
Mk. 16:1 Now when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint Him.
Though the early church observed the Sabbath, in time it came to worship on Sunday, the day of Yeshua’s resurrection. But both Jew and Christian recognized that Sunday was also a Roman holy day tied to sun worship. Ignaius, bishop of Antioch, indicates this change had began to take place as early as about 115 C.E. He wrote to the Magnesians, telling them to “no longer live for the Sabbath but for the Lord’s Day, on which day our life arose.” The Didache, a manual on church instruction written around 120 C.E., also directs Christians to come together on the Lord’s Day to worship.
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