Then he came to Nazaret, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue as was his custom. He stood up to read the lesson

Then he went down to Capharnahum, a town of Galilee, and on the sabbath he taught the people;

One sabbath it happened that as he was crossing the cornfields his disciples pulled some ears of corn and ate them, rubbing them in their hands.

Some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is not allowed on the sabbath?"

And he said to them, "The Son of man is Lord even over the sabbath."

Another sabbath he happened to go into the synagogue and teach. Now a man was there who had his right hand withered,

and the scribes and Pharisees watched to see if he would heal on the sabbath, so as to discover some charge against him.

Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it right on the sabbath to help or to hurt, to save life or to kill?"

When he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath,

But the president of the synagogue was annoyed at Jesus healing on the sabbath, and he said to the crowd, "There are six days for work to be done; come during them to get healed, instead of on the sabbath."

The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites, does not each of you untether his ox or ass from the stall on the sabbath and lead it away to drink?

And this woman, a daughter of Abraham, bound by Satan for all these eighteen years, was she not to be freed from her bondage on the sabbath?"

so Jesus asked the jurists and Pharisees, "Is it right to heal on the sabbath or not?"

"Which of you," he said to them, "when an ass or an ox has fallen into a well, will not pull him out at once upon the sabbath day?"

It was the day of the Preparation and the sabbath was just dawning.

On the sabbath they rested in obedience to God's command, but on the first day of the week at early dawn they took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.