The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies might 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 day on which Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes was the sabbath.

And the sabbath being over, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to view the sepulchre.

And it was the day of preparation, and the sabbath was now coming on.

And evening having now come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

And immediately the man was made well, and took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the sabbath.

If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are ye angry at me, because I have restored soundness to the whole body of a man on the sabbath?

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

But the ruler of the synagogue answering, being filled with indignation because Jesus had performed a cure on the sabbath, said to the multitude, There are six days in which it is proper to work; on those therefore come and be cured, and not on the sabbathday.

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