AT that time Jesus walked through corn-fields on a sabbath-day; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, Behold, thy disciples do a thing that it is not lawful to do on the sabbath.

Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are not culpable?

For the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

and, behold a man was there who had a withered hand. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on sabbath days? that they might accuse him.

Then he said to them; What man of you is there who hath one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath, doth he not lay hold on him, and lift him out?

Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do good on the sabbath days.

And pray that your flight be not in winter, nor on the sabbath.

NOW after the eve of the sabbath, as the light was dawning, towards the first day of the week, Mary Magdalen had come, and the other Mary, to view the sepulchre.

And they entered into Capernaum; and immediately on the sabbath going into the synagogue, he taught.

And he was walking through the cornfields on the sabbath; and his disciples as they went on the road plucked the ears of corn.

And the Pharisees said to him, See, why are they doing on the sabbath, what is not lawful?

And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.

Wherefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

And they watched him if he would cure him on the sabbath; that they might accuse him.

And he saith to them, Is it lawful on the sabbath day to do good, or to do evil, to preserve life, or to kill? but they were silent.

And when the sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many when they heard him were amazed, saying, Whence hath this man these things? and what is the wisdom given to him, that even such miracles are done by his hands?

And when the evening was now come (since it was the preparation, that is the day preceding the sabbath),

AND when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, purchased aromatics, that they might come, and anoint him.

And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up; and he went, according to his usual custom, into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and rose up to read.

And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the sabbath.

AND it came to pass on the sabbath after the second day of the passover, that he was passing through the cornfields; and the disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them out in their hands.

Then said some of the Pharisees unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful on the sabbath-day?

And he said, The Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath-day.

And it came to pass on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and a man was there, and his right hand was shrunk.

Then the scribes and Pharisees watched him, if he would heal on the sabbath-day, that they might find an accusation against him.

Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you a question; Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath-day, or to do evil? to preserve life or to destroy it?

And he was teaching in one of the synagogues, on the sabbath.

Then the ruler of the synagogue, indignant, that on the sabbath Jesus had performed the cure, addressing himself to the multitude, said, There are six days in which work is to be done: on these therefore come and be cured, and not on the sabbath-day.

Then the Lord answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not every one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead him to water?

And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?

AND it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the principal Pharisees, to eat bread on the sabbath, that they were watchfully observant of him.

And Jesus addressing himself to the teachers of the law and the Pharisees, spake, saying, Is it lawful to perform cures on the sabbath?

and addressing them, said, Whose ass or ox is fallen into a pit, and doth he not immediately pull him out on the sabbath-day?

And that was the preparation-day, and the sabbath's twilight was approaching.

And returning, they made preparation of aromatics and unguents; and they rested the sabbath-day, according to the commandment.

And instantly the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked away: and that day was the sabbath.

The Jews therefore said to him that was cured, It is the sabbath: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on the sabbath-day.

Therefore sought they the more to kill him, because he had not only broken the sabbath, but called God his own Father, setting himself on an equality with God.

Because Moses ordered you circumcision; (not that it comes from Moses, but from our ancestors;) so ye circumcise a man on the sabbath-day.

If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath-day, that the law of Moses should not be violated; are ye incensed against me, because I have made a man whole on the sabbath-day?

(Now it was the sabbath-day when Jesus made the mud, and opened his eyes.)

Then said certain of the Pharisees, This man is not from God, because he observeth not the sabbath. Others said, How is it possible for a wicked man to do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

The Jews therefore, as it was the preparation, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, (for that sabbath-day was a great day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Then they returned unto Jerusalem, from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, about a sabbath-day's journey distant.

And they departed from Perga, and came to Antioch in Pisidia, and entering into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down.

For they who dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, being ignorant of him, and the words of the prophets that are read every sabbath-day, by condemning him have fulfilled them.

But when the Jews were going out of the synagogue, the Gentiles entreated that these words might be spoken to them the following sabbath.

And on the next sabbath almost all the city thronged together to hear the word of God.

For Moses for ages past in every city hath those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath-day.

And on the sabbath-day we went forth out of the city to the river side, where an oratory was by custom established; and sitting down, we spoke to the women who there assembled.

and he discoursed in the synagogue every sabbath-day, and persuaded both the Jews and the Greek proselytes.