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

So He came down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee. And He continued to teach them on the Sabbath,

One Sabbath He happened to be passing through the wheat fields, and His disciples were pulling and eating the heads of wheat, rubbing them in their hands.

And some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"

Then He said to them, "The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

On another Sabbath He found Himself in the synagogue teaching; and there was there a man whose right hand was withered.

And the scribes and the Pharisees were closely watching Him to see whether He would cure him on the Sabbath, in order to get a charge against Him.

Then Jesus said to them, "Is it right on the Sabbath to do people good, or to do them evil, to save life or to take it?"

One Sabbath He was teaching in one of the synagogues,

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, answered the crowd, "There are six days on which people must work; so come on these and be cured, but not on the Sabbath."

Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not everyone of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey and lead him out of the stable to water him?

And so was it not right for this woman, a descendant of Abraham, whom Satan has for eighteen years kept bound, to be freed from this bond on the Sabbath?"

One Sabbath, when He went to take a meal at the house of a Pharisee who was a member of the council, they continued to watch Him closely.

He answered the experts in the law and the Pharisees by asking, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath or not?"

Then He said to them, "Which of you, if his son or ox falls into a well, will not at once pull him out on the Sabbath?"

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

Now on the Sabbath they rested, in accordance with the commandment, but on the first day of the week at early dawn they went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had prepared.