As it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a very important one, the Jews requested Pilate to have their legs broken and their bodies taken down.

Although it was now evening, yet since it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

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."

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.

After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to get a look at the tomb.

Then He said to them, "The Sabbath was made to serve man and not man to keep the Sabbath.

Well, if a male child undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath, to keep the law of Moses from being broken, are you angry with me for making a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

but they went on from Perga and arrived at Antioch in Pisidia. On the sabbath they went to the synagogue and took seats.

For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders, because they were ignorant of Him, by condemning Him have actually fulfilled the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath,

As they were leaving the synagogue, the people kept begging that all this be repeated to them the next sabbath,

The next sabbath almost the whole town turned out to hear God's message.

For Moses from the ancient generations has had his preachers in every town, and on every sabbath has been read aloud in the synagogues."

On the sabbath we went outside the gate, to the bank of the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and began to talk with the women who had met there.

Every sabbath it was Paul's habit to preach in the synagogue and to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

So a sabbath of rest is still awaiting God's people.