Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been raised. As was his custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. When he stood up to read,

Then Jesus went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee, and began teaching the people on Sabbath days.

Some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what isn't lawful on Sabbath days?"

But the synagogue leader, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, told the crowd, "There are six days when work is to be done. So come on those days to be healed, and not on the Sabbath day."

Shouldn't this woman, a descendant of Abraham whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the Sabbath day?"

Then he asked them, "If your son or ox falls into a well on the Sabbath day, you would pull him out immediately, wouldn't you?"

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