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Luke shows the incident of the man with the withered hand as occurring following or on the
"Second-First Sabbatw" (as does Matthew by implication), but Luke additionally states that the
withered hand event occurred "on heteros Sabbatw" [or perhaps "the other Sabbatw"]. The cross-
referenced detail reveals the appearance of a singular Sabbath (heteros Sabbatw) as it appeared
seemingly in-line with at least one other Sabbath.

Then, the two accounts (Matthew and Luke) significantly reveal an interval of more than a
single Sabbath (or "Sabbasin" which means plural Sabbaths). This respective interval included a
singular date termed the "Deuteroprotos Sabbatw" (or the Second-First Sabbath), and the interval
also included a singular date termed the "heteros Sabbatw" (or the other Sabbath).

The interesting "Second-First" Sabbath date is presumed to have occurred in alignment
with one of the specific lunar-phases. This date probably occurred in the last-half of the lunar-
cycle. The reference to "the other Sabbath" probably occurred in this same time frame -- perhaps
in the extended Sabbath interval (as further detailed throughout subsequent paragraphs).

Another interesting combination of plural Sabbath time is recorded in the Book of Acts as
follows:

"...Paul and his company...went into the synagogue on the Sabbatwn [a date which signifies
an extended Sabbath time]...And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gen-
tiles besought that these words might be preached to them Metaxu Sabbaton ['the Between
Sabbath']...And the Erchomai Sabbatw [the appearance of the coming Sabbatw] came al-
most the whole city together to hear the word of God." (Based on AV of Acts 13:13-14).

The reference to the date Sabbatwn (or plural Sabbath time) aligned with Metaxu Sabbaton
(or the Between Sabbaton) is unusual. This date -- which occurred at "Sabbatwn" -- reflects a pe-
riod of extended Sabbath time. The time of "Sabbatwn" was probably understood in the First
Century as pertaining to either the first-half or the last-half of the lunar-cycle (as more fully ex-
plained in subsequent sections). There are a number of additional instances of the New Testament
usage of plural Sabbaths.

An early understood connection between the weekly Sabbath and the lunar cycle is seem-
ingly manifest from a number of texts (either biblical texts, or closely associated to biblical texts):

"[Christian converts have their own part in observing]...an Holyday, ...the New Moon,
...[and] the Sabbatwn..." (Colossians 2:16).
[Peter] inferred thus: "Neither worship as [some] Jews...[for] if the moon be not visible,
they do not hold the Sabbath, which is called the first; nor do they hold the new moon,
nor the feast of unleavened bread, nor the feast, nor the great day." (Clement of Alexandria,
The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter 5).

"And in periods of seven days the moon undergoes its changes. In the first week she be
comes half moon; in the second, full moon; and in the third, in her wane, again half moon;
and in the fourth she disappears." (St. Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscella-
nies, Chapter 16).

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