The phrase "the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath," is famously recorded as a saying of Jesus in Mark 2:27, but it shares a direct conceptual parallel in classical rabbinic literature within the Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael (Tractate Shabbata, 1:8).The same arguments are recorded in the Talmud in Yoma 85b. During the famous discussion of why saving a life (pikuach nefesh) overrides Shabbat, R. Shimon ben Menasya says:חלל עליו שבת אחת כדי שישמור שבתות הרבה“Desecrate one Sabbath for him so that he may observe many Sabbaths.”Then R. Jonathan ben Joseph gives the argument based on Exodus 31:14:חלל עליו שבת אחת כדי שישמור שבתות הרבה / the Sabbath is entrusted to you rather than you being entrusted to it
>>18725575Also the Sanhedrin that sentenced Jesus to death was primarily made up of Sadducees
>>18725634Which makes sense because Sadduccees opposed teachings that a messiah could be a divine or semidivine figure or the physical resurrection of the dead, both of which views were held by the Pharisees.
