The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that sabbath was a high day ), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Now it was the sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

And straightway the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked. Now it was the sabbath on that day.

If a man receiveth circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye wroth with me, because I made a man every whit whole on the sabbath?

Moses hath given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man.

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he keepeth not the sabbath. But others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was division among them.

So the Jews said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.

And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only brake the sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.