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'On the Sabbath' in the Bible

He came to Nazareth also, where He had been brought up; and, as was His custom, He went to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read.

So He came down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, where He frequently taught the people on the Sabbath days.

And some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what the Law forbids on the Sabbath?"

Then Jesus said to them, "I put it to you all whether we are allowed to do good on the Sabbath, or to do evil; to save a life, or to destroy it."

Once He was teaching on the Sabbath in one of the synagogues

Then the Warden of the Synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured her on a Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are six days in the week on which people ought to work. On those days therefore come and get yourselves cured, and not on the Sabbath day."

But the Lord's reply to him was, "Hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his bullock or his ass from the stall and lead him to water?

This led Jesus to ask the lawyers and Pharisees, "Is it allowable to cure people on the Sabbath?"

Then He turned to them and said, "Which of you shall have a child or an ox fall into a well on the Sabbath day, and will not immediately lift him out?"

Then they returned, and prepared spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested in obedience to the Commandment.