11 occurrences

'On the Sabbath' in the Bible

Now Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read,

So he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he began to teach the people.

But some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?"

Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save a life or to destroy it?"

Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,

But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day."

Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from its stall, and lead it to water?

Then shouldn't this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?"

So Jesus asked the experts in religious law and the Pharisees, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?"

Then they returned and prepared aromatic spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

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