History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week - John N. Andrews

What had the Saviour done to justify the hatred
of the Jewish people toward him? He had healed
upon the Sabbath, with one word, a man who had
been helpless thirty-eighty years. Was not this act
in strict accordance with the Sabbatic institution?
Our Lord has settled this point in the affirmative by
weighty and unanswerable arguments,[6] not it this
case alone, but in others already noticed, and also
in those which remain to be noticed. Had he left the
man in his wretchedness because it was the
Sabbath, when a word would have healed him, he
would have dishonored the Sabbath, and thrown
reproach upon its Author. We shall find the Lord of
the Sabbath still further at work in its behalf in
rescuing it from the hands of those who had so
utterly perverted its design; a work quite
unnecessary, had he designed to nail the institution
to his cross.
The next incident to be noticed is the case of
the man that was born blind. Jesus seeing him
said:--
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