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'On the Sabbath' in the Bible

At that time as Jesus pass'd through the corn on the sabbath day, his disciples being hungry, pluck'd the ears of corn, and fell to eating.

or have ye not observed in the law, what a work the priests made in the temple on the sabbath-day, without being blamed?

where they brought a man with a withered hand: and asked him this insnaring question, is it lawful to heal on the sabbath-day?

and he answer'd, which of you all that should have one of his sheep fall into a pit on the sabbath-day, would not bestir himself, and lift it out?

is not a man of much greater consequence than a sheep? how lawful then is it to do good offices on the sabbath-day?

Another time, as he was going through the corn-fields on the sabbath-day, his disciples as they pass'd along began to pluck the ears of corn.

upon which the Pharisees said to him, pray observe how they trespass on the sabbath-day.

the Pharisees watched Jesus, to see if he would heal him on the sabbath-day, that so they might accuse him.

being come to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; according to his custom, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and standing up to read,

At length he went to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath-days.

upon which some of the Pharisees said to them, why do you do what is not allowed to be done on the sabbath-day?

then said Jesus to them, I will ask you one question, which is the most allowable on the sabbath-day, to do good, or to neglect it? to save a man's life, or to let him perish?

As he was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath-day, a woman was present,

but the ruler of the synagogue being highly incensed at Jesus's healing on the sabbath-day, said to the people, there are six days for work, you should come therefore for cure on those days, and not on the sabbath.

to which Jesus replied, thou hypocrite, who is there among you that scruples to untie his ox or his ass, and lead him from the stall to water on the sabbath-day?

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.

Then continuing his discourse, which of you, said he, if his child or his ox fell into a pit, would not immediately draw him out, though it were on the sabbath-day?

upon which occasion the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he did such things on the sabbath-day.

Jesus answered them, I perform'd one single miracle on the sabbath, and does that alarm you?

Moses enjoin'd you circumcision (or rather not Moses, but the patriarchs) accordingly you circumcise a man on the sabbath-day.

if to avoid the violation of the Mosaic law, a man be exposed to circumcision on the sabbath-day, are ye angry at me, because I cured a man, whose whole body was indisposed on the sabbath-day?

Now for fear the bodies should remain upon the cross on the sabbath-day, for it was then the eve of the pascal-sabbath, a day of high solemnity, the Jews desired Pilate that their legs might be broke, and that they might be taken away.

From Perga they went to Antioch in Pisidia, and going to the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they took their places,