Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
To save
General references
Bible References
Is it
Luke 14:3
Jesus therefore addressing himself to the doctors of the law, and to the Pharisees, said, is it allowable to perform a cure on the sabbath-day? to which they made no answer.
Matthew 12:12
is not a man of much greater consequence than a sheep? how lawful then is it to do good offices on the sabbath-day?
Mark 3:4
and he ask'd them, is it allowed to do good, or to do mischief on the sabbath-days? to save life, or to kill? but they were very silent.
John 7:19
was it not Moses who gave you the law, and yet none of you observe that law?
To save
Luke 9:56
for the son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. and they went to another village.
General references
Matthew 23:24
ye blind guides, who strain your liquor for a gnat, and swallow a beetle.
Mark 2:27
adding this observation, "the sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath."