I was listening to the gospel of John and was shocked to hear this line. I looked it up and found that nearly every English translation agrees. But when I checked the Greek I found that it actually says "He had loosed the Sabbath". He loosened the restrictions, bringing them down the correct level. The Pharisees had added more restrictions than there should be. It is hard to fathom a scholar not understanding this, which leads me to believe it is intentional bias by translators to try to make Yeshua out to be a sabbath-breaker.
Right, I was going to say (without even delving into it) that yahusha wouldn't break the sabbath according to Yah's rules but maybe according to man's rules. I'm sure he was breaking all kinds of pharisseeical laws but those don't matter anyway.
Well said. Yes. Yahusha DID NOT break the Sabbath by The Fathers definition or He would have been sinning which we know He did not do. Yahusha broke the Jews’s sabbath. He broke all their man made added on stuff and demonstrated how everyone was supposed to be doing Shabbat. Sadly, Mainstream Christianity saw what they wanted in those verses and ran with them.