How much then is a man better than a sheep? wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath-days.

And certain of the Pharisees said to them, Why do ye that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath-days?

Then said Jesus to them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath-days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

Then they returned to Jerusalem, from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.

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

And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, and said to the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath.

In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.

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

And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

And immediately the man was healed, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

And he said to them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

If a man on the sabbath receiveth circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have restored a man to sound health on the sabbath?

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

Let no man therefore judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a holy-day, or or the new-moon, or of the sabbaths: