Why did Jesus say the Son of Man was Lord over the Sabbath because the Sabbath was made for man?

Bart Ehrman gave the following explanation: "[If] you translate from Aramaic however, Aramaic used the same word for man and son of man, 'barnash' so it really means, Sabbath was made for humans, not the other way around". This agrees in principle with the currently accepted answer by @DJClayworth. (Source: Rational Responders)

I think it is very important to put the seventh day Sabbath in its proper perspective. Simply put, it is a commandment of God. As Christians, abiding under God's new covenant we are instructed to follow His commandments out of love for Him. 1 John 5:3 "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome." Also, 1 John 2:3-4 "3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him." Many try to say that these commandments are of the old covenant and some of them are not applicable to the new covenant. I disagree. I believe that, as Christ put it, "not the smallest letter shall depart from the Law". There are definite changes in how God's Law is applied under the new covenant, however, it is all still relevant to believers today. The change in the Law is that Christ is a high priest in the order of Melchizedek. Christ's priesthood is in the Heavenly realm and overshadows Aaron's priesthood on earth. Under the New Covenant Christ's sacrifice ended the requirement for animal sacrifice's once and for all. This is the change in the Law but even this change did not put an end to the Levitical Priesthood. The author of Hebrews comments that Christ cannot be a priest on earth because of Aaron's priesthood. If the priesthood has ended then this would not be so. As New Covenant believers in Christ we enter into the Covenant by faith in Christ's atoning sacrifice on the cross. We are saved by Grace through Faith. Once, we enter into the New Covenant by faith we walk out our faith and know God by keeping his commandments. Keeping God's commandments is the fruit of our faith, not the root of our faith.

First of all who is the son of man . The general understanding is that Christ being the son of man has been given the power to be lord of the Sabbath. Lets dissect it a little bit. First of all who is the son of man? The answer is, that we are all the son of man unless someone has another explanation of where we came from So when Christ was quoting that passage he was quoting that we as human beings are Lord of the Sabbath because we are al sons of man. So If we are all lords of the Sabbath, We are therefore in Charge of it, not slave of it as the Israelites were.

Then he said to them, “Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” (NIV Mark 2:27-28)

Upon more thinking and searching more commentaries, I think the amplified version of this verse, detailing the logic, could read as follows:

God made Adam before he made the Sabbath, to give his body rest and to provide other benefits to man. He made the Sabbath for him to enjoy.  The Sabbath was not meant to be a burden, but a rest.  In this sense the Sabbath was a work 'in service of man' and so men were above the Sabbath in so much as it was made for them.  In the same way, the Son of Man, that is the New Adam, or federal head of humanity, is over the Sabbath, but much more so.  As God, He could not fully be made to be 'under Law' but is Lord over the Sabbath and all Laws of God. As a man, He was born under Law but as God he could not be brought fully under His own Law. Furthermore, as Lord of the Sabbath not only could Jesus properly teach the meaning of the Sabbath to the Pharisees that misunderstood it, but He would soon act as 'Lord over it' by dying on the Sabbath and rising to make a New Covenant where the Father would be pleased with His work of salvation and would rest and delight in this work as a new never ending Sabbath, that could give eternal rest four the soul by faith.

In other words, the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath (in the first creation). Therefore, in the same way and even more so, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath (as is shown by his application of its true meaning and abolition of the Old Sabbath in the new eternal Sabbath he will soon create).”

Christ did not die on the weekly Sabbath but he died on an high holy day Sabbath kept by the Jews known as Passover he died in the midst or middle of the week a Wednesday. He was in the grave 72 hours and rose at twilight/sundown Saturday evening which is the beginning of a new day. He had already risen and was gone long before Mary and Mary Magdalene came to his tomb.

He kept the Sabbath Holy because he was the law and he never changed the day at all. He did not eliminate ONE JOT or TITTLE of his 10 commandments he just summarized them into two great commandments. The first four including the Sabbath commandment fall under Love for God, the next six fall under Love for neighbor.

The first day of the week fallacy is implied by people not understanding what is going on. The disciples were not worshiping on Sunday the first day of the week when he appeared to them they were hiding for fear of their lives. In Acts Paul tells people to bring things on the first day of the week a gleaning to help another congregation this was a work day not a Sabbath meeting. Constantine a worshiper of the sun God ordered the new christian converts to keep Sunday it was he and the Roman empire and Catholic church that changed the day NOT Christ or God. Christ never sinned and he never ever changed the laws in fact he said he came to Magnify make them greater not change them. He also came to reveal the FATHER someone greater than himself. He would never change something his Father and him agreed on as a Sabbath. That would be usurping his father's ultimate authority just as Satan did. The Feast of Tabernacles depicts the Millennium Sabbath Rest to come when Christ as King of King and Lord of Lord's comes and subdues ALL NATIONS and CONQUERS all Nations and will rule 1000 years ( One day to the God family) over all humanity NOT IN heaven but on earth and at the end he turns the Kingdom over to God the father who plans to dwell with Mankind perpetually. There is NO rapture and we are not going to go live in heaven. We only go to heaven IF we die and our spirit goes to God our dead body is laid to sleep until resurrection. When God the father comes a NEW day begins and it is going to be a work day with new covenants established again.

I had been looking for a proper interpretation to this climb, and now I understood something like this, He is the prince of peace in essence rest, So what could be the possibility which I agree with is He is the Lord of the true Sabbath in other words He is the Lord of rest. It was ordained for the sake of man to have rest and relish with the Lord by what he has done on the six days of work, in fact, it was given to them as a grace, but the Sabbatarian tradition blinded their minds, and they forbidden several things with their carnal mind with these followings things- Sowing, plowing, reaping, binding sheaves, threshing, winnowing, sifting, grinding, kneading, baking, washing wool, beating wool, dying wool, spinning wool, putting on a weaver's beam, making threads, weaving threads, separating threads, making a knot, untying a knot, sewing two stitches...on and on and on. You talk about heavy laden...the system was oppressive and it was all unscriptural and horribly ungodly and brutally unkind.

I think the answer to Jesus statement "I am Lord over the Sabbath" is best answered by understanding who Jesus is in relation to God. In John 1 it says "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God" and in verse 14 it goes on to say "and the word became flesh and dwelt among us." By this understanding, we see that God created all things through the "word", who is Jesus. This means that Jesus is Lord over the Sabbath because through Him the Sabbath was instituted at creation.

Just a thought......

Here Jesus is saying that he has authority over the sabbath. He has the authority because he created the day. We are to keep the sabbath faithfully each week. That does nor mean Sunday. Sunday is not the sabbath. Saturday is the true sabbath. What Jesus was telling the pharisees had turned the sabbath into a day of burden and not rest. He did not abolish it but instead he removing all the man made restrictions that had been made.