And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went to the synagogue, as he was accustomed to do, and stood up to read the Scriptures.

And he came down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee. And he taught them on the Sabbath,

One Sabbath he happened to be passing through the wheat fields, and his disciples were picking the heads of wheat, and eating them, rubbing them in their hands.

And some of the Pharisees said, "Why do you do what it is against the Law to do on the Sabbath?"

And he said to them, "The Son of Man is master of the Sabbath."

On another Sabbath he happened to go to the synagogue and teach. There was a man there whose right hand was withered.

And the scribes and the Pharisees were on the watch to see whether he would cure people on the Sabbath, in order to find a charge to bring against him.

Jesus said to them, "I want to ask you, Is it allowable on the Sabbath to do people good or to do them harm? to save life or to destroy it?"

One Sabbath he was teaching in one of the synagogues,

But the leader of the synagogue, in his vexation because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, spoke out and said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is right to work. Come on them and be cured, but not on the Sabbath day."

But the Master answered, "You hypocrites! Does not every one of you untie his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him away to water him?

And did not this woman, who is a descendant of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen years, have to be released from those bonds on the Sabbath day?"

One Sabbath, when he went to take a meal at the house of a member of the council who was a Pharisee, they were watching him closely.

And Jesus said to the Pharisees and the experts in the Law, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath or not?"

Then he said to them, "Who among you, if his child or his ox falls into a well, will not pull him out at once on the Sabbath?"

It was the Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was just beginning.

Then they went home, and prepared spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested in obedience to the commandment,