2:27,28
Jesus concludes the incident with two very profound statements. The first was that “the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath”. God saw things very differently from man, and the Pharisees were looking down the wrong end of the telescope! We have a terrible tendency of getting things the wrong way round. A religious mindset will make the commands of God into burdens. There is, of course, the opposite danger which puts all the focus on us instead of on the Lord.
The second profound point is that “the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath”. At least part of the meaning of this is that Jesus is God and so has the authority to override some of the details of the Law, or rather the interpretation of the Law. Jesus had a far better understanding of the Law than the Pharisees ever had. Jesus did, afterall, actually write the Law! However, I think there might be more of a link between the statement in 2:28 and the preceding one in 2:27 than this explanation seems to give.
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