Jesus made statements that were startling; if He was not God, they would be blasphemous. In other words, Jesus left His hearers (then and now) with no middle ground when it came to forming an opinion of Him. You either believe that He is Lord, so that you acknowledge Him as the Son of God and give Him your life, or you must reject Him as an imposter. There is no other option; no other opinion of Jesus that you can legitimately form.

The more that Jesus and His disciples live out this new day and challenge the misguided ways of the religious establishment of the day—their perversion of what God had given to His people for their worship and to prepare them for the Messiah—the more they hate Jesus.
Jesus is becoming an increasing stumbling stone for those who will reject Him.
And one of the chief ways that Jesus bothersthese people is His rejection of their man-made Sabbath restrictions.