Jesus stripped the Sabbath of the disfigurements which human hands had left upon it, and set it forth in its beauty as when God gave it to man. He did not abolish the day nor lower its sacredness by a hair’s breadth – He made it all the more sacred. A picture of Dante by Giotto was lost to the world of art for a long while. A researcher of art, however, thought that at last he had found it on a wall, hidden under coats of whitewash or plaster. With great care he removed the coverings, until the face of the Italian poet was revealed in all its sadness and strength. The real Sabbath which God made was lost to the world, covered up, plastered over with man’s interpretation and inventions, in Jesus’ day, and He took away these obscuring and defacing teachings of men, showing the world the Sabbath as God meant it to be and as He would have observed.