Acts 18:4, 11

We next notice Paul’s visit to Corinth. “He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.... And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.”ChSa 73.2

Paul taught for a portion of the time in the synagogue; but after the Jews “opposed,” he continued to teach the people at the home of Justus, “whose house joined hard to the synagogue.” The record states that he reasoned in the synagogue, teaching Gentiles as well as Jews “every Sabbath,” and that he continued in the synagogue and the house which “joined hard to” it, a year and six months. There would be seventy-eight Sabbaths in that period. These, with the six previously noted, would make some eighty-four Sabbaths in which Luke records the fact of Paul’s holding meetings in Gentile cities with both “Jews and Greeks.” Paul was the great apostle to the Gentiles: and all these instances of Sabbath meetings mentioned, occurred in Gentile cities and not in Judah. Is not this significant? It would have been much more easy to explain away, if it had been in the Jews’ own country where all these meetings on the Sabbath occurred. We find no instances in which any secular work occurred in connection with any of these Sabbath meetings, no long journeys traveled, no reckoning of accounts.ChSa 73.3

Sunday observers cite Paul’s night meeting in Acts 20, and dwell upon it with much satisfaction. Yet he and his companions used the light part of that day for ordinary secular business. One night meeting they consider strong evidence for first day sacredness. Yet that very instance really counts more for the Sabbath than for the first day; for the disciples remained there over the Sabbath, and as soon as the light of the first day dawned, they started on their long journey toward Jerusalem. They did not start on the Sabbath, but they did on Sunday. Doubtless the reason why that night meeting was mentioned, was the remarkable occurrence of raising the dead man Eutychus. This was one of the greatest miracles that Paul ever wrought.ChSa 74.1

But here we have scores of religious meetings on a day which Inspiration declares to be the Sabbath, in which Jews and Gentiles are instructed in the truths of the gospel; and yet men teach that it was not the Sabbath day, but the first, which is never in a single instance called the Sabbath. So hard is it to see a truth which involves a cross.ChSa 74.2