then they went home, and provided spices and perfumes: after which they rested the sabbath-day, as the law appointed.

if to avoid the violation of the Mosaic law, a man be exposed to circumcision on the sabbath-day, are ye angry at me, because I cured a man, whose whole body was indisposed on the sabbath-day?

Now for fear the bodies should remain upon the cross on the sabbath-day, for it was then the eve of the pascal-sabbath, a day of high solemnity, the Jews desired Pilate that their legs might be broke, and that they might be taken away.

adding this observation, "the sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath."

but the ruler of the synagogue being highly incensed at Jesus's healing on the sabbath-day, said to the people, there are six days for work, you should come therefore for cure on those days, and not on the sabbath.

Whereas 'tis we who have believed that shall enter into rest, as he said, "wherefore I have sworn in my wrath, that they shall not enter into my rest." which is different from that rest, at the beginning of the world, when the work of creation was finished.

then he that enters into divine rest, will indeed rest from his works, as God did from his.

and immediately the man was healed, and took up his bed, and went his way: but that day being the sabbath,

the Jews said to him that was cured, it is the sabbath-day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.

upon which occasion the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he did such things on the sabbath-day.

therefore the Jews were the more eager to kill him, because he had not only violated the sabbath, but likewise, because he had said that God was his proper father, making himself equal with God.

Jesus answered them, I perform'd one single miracle on the sabbath, and does that alarm you?

Moses enjoin'd you circumcision (or rather not Moses, but the patriarchs) accordingly you circumcise a man on the sabbath-day.

now it was the sabbath-day when Jesus made the clay, and gave him his sight.

thereupon some of the Pharisees said, this man has no divine mission, because he does not observe the sabbath. but said others, if he be an impostor, how can he do such miracles? and there was a schism among them.

it was then about the sixth hour of the day before the sabbath of the passover: and he said to the Jews, behold your king.

then they returned to Jerusalem, from the mountain of olives, which is a sabbath-day's journey from it.

From Perga they went to Antioch in Pisidia, and going to the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they took their places,

as for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and their senators, by their not knowing who he was, and by condemning him, they have accomplished the declarations of the prophets, which are read every sabbath-day:

When Paul and Barnabas were gone out of the Jewish synagogue, the Gentiles desired them to entertain them on the same subject, the following sabbath.

The next sabbath-day almost the whole city assembled to hear the word of God.

for as to the law of Moses, that has been published in every city a considerable time, being read in the synagogues every sabbath-day.

we went out of town on the sabbath towards the river, where the Jews were allowed to have an oratory.

Paul, as was his custom, us'd to go there, and for three sabbath-days discours'd to the Jews from the scriptures,

and being of the same trade, he liv'd with them, and follow'd the business of tent-making. every sabbath he disputed in the synagogue,

every sabbath-day let every one of you set apart something of what he has happily gain'd, for the common treasury, that there may be no collection when I come.

which shows that the people of God have a sabbath still to come.

At that time as Jesus pass'd through the corn on the sabbath day, his disciples being hungry, pluck'd the ears of corn, and fell to eating.

the Pharisees seeing that, said to him, see, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath-day.

or have ye not observed in the law, what a work the priests made in the temple on the sabbath-day, without being blamed?

for the sabbath is subservient to men.

where they brought a man with a withered hand: and asked him this insnaring question, is it lawful to heal on the sabbath-day?

and he answer'd, which of you all that should have one of his sheep fall into a pit on the sabbath-day, would not bestir himself, and lift it out?

is not a man of much greater consequence than a sheep? how lawful then is it to do good offices on the sabbath-day?

be sure to pray that your flight be not in the winter, nor on the sabbath-day:

Now the next day after the preparation of the sabbath, the chief priests and Pharisees went together to Pilate,

The sabbath being over, and the first day of the week beginning to dawn, Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, came to see the sepulchre.

As soon as they were come to Capernaum, he entred into the synagogue, and it being the sabbath, instructed them.

Another time, as he was going through the corn-fields on the sabbath-day, his disciples as they pass'd along began to pluck the ears of corn.

upon which the Pharisees said to him, pray observe how they trespass on the sabbath-day.

therefore the son of man has a power of dispensing with the law of the sabbath.

the Pharisees watched Jesus, to see if he would heal him on the sabbath-day, that so they might accuse him.

and he ask'd them, is it allowed to do good, or to do mischief on the sabbath-days? to save life, or to kill? but they were very silent.

when the sabbath was come, he preach'd in the synagogue, to the great astonishment of many, who upon hearing his discourse, said, how came he by all this? what strange endowment of knowledge is this, that he should work such miracles?

Now, as soon as the evening was come; because it was then the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

When the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, after having bought aromatic drugs to embalm him,

being come to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; according to his custom, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and standing up to read,

At length he went to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath-days.

On the second-prime sabbath, as Jesus was passing through the corn-fields, his disciples happen'd to pluck the ears, and rubbing out the corn with their hands began to eat.

upon which some of the Pharisees said to them, why do you do what is not allowed to be done on the sabbath-day?

the son of man, said he, may dispense even with the sabbath.

On another sabbath-day it happen'd, that he went into the synagogue to preach, where a man was present, who had the palsy in his right hand.

now the Scribes and Pharisees were upon the watch to see if he would work a cure upon the sabbath-day, and so have matter of accusation against him.

then said Jesus to them, I will ask you one question, which is the most allowable on the sabbath-day, to do good, or to neglect it? to save a man's life, or to let him perish?

As he was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath-day, a woman was present,

to which Jesus replied, thou hypocrite, who is there among you that scruples to untie his ox or his ass, and lead him from the stall to water on the sabbath-day?

and must not this daughter of Abraham, whom satan has held bound these eighteen years, be disengag'd from this bond, on a sabbath-day?

One sabbath-day, Jesus went to dine with a Pharisee of the first distinction, where he was strictly observ'd.

Jesus therefore addressing himself to the doctors of the law, and to the Pharisees, said, is it allowable to perform a cure on the sabbath-day? to which they made no answer.

Then continuing his discourse, which of you, said he, if his child or his ox fell into a pit, would not immediately draw him out, though it were on the sabbath-day?