“During his life Jesus had affirmed that he was ‘Lord also of the Sabbath day.’ Mark 2:28. After his resurrection he signalized the first day of the week, and not the seventh, by his revelation. On the day he rose he appeared to his disciples on five different occasions, and withdrawing himself during the interval reappeared on the following ‘first day of the week,’ his disciples being assembled and Thomas with them: ‘Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.’ John 20:19. The day of Pentecost falling that year on the ‘first day of the week,’ the disciples were again found assembled by mutual understanding: ‘And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place...And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance’ (Acts 2:1-4); and the promised gift of the Holy Ghost descended upon them. The Lord after many years appeared unto John in Patmos and granted him the great closing Revelation on the ‘Lord’s day:’ ‘I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet’ (Rev. 1:10); which all the early Christians understood to signify the weekly festival dedicated to the resurrection of the Lord.” — A.A. Hodge, The Day Changed and the Sabbath Preserved (1877), pp. 7-9