Why Jesus Kept 'Poking the Bear' on the Sabbath—and What It Proves
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J. Warner Wallace investigates Jesus' Sabbath miracles and controversies through a forensic lens.
In this extended episode, cold-case detective and Christian apologist J. Warner Wallace investigates every one of Jesus' Sabbath miracles and controversies as if they were crime scenes on a case board. Instead of treating these passages as isolated "nice healings," J. Warner stacks them side by side—Capernaum, the withered hand, Bethesda, the bent woman, the man with dropsy, the man born blind—and asks the questions any good detective would ask: Why this person, on this day, in this setting? Why are so many of these healings non‑emergencies that easily could have waited until the next day? Why does Jesus keep staging these events in synagogues, at Jerusalem feasts, and in Pharisees' homes, right in front of the people most likely to object? What is He claiming about Himself when He heals on the very day that belongs uniquely to God? As J. Warner walks through each Sabbath scene, he collects the "evidence": the wording of the texts, the legal questions ("Is it lawful…?"), the escalating conflicts, the reactions of the religious leaders, and the way Jesus talks about His relationship to the Father and to the Sabbath itself. When all the case files are finally pinned to the board, a…
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