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."

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.

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.

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?

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

At that time Jesus walked one sabbath through the wheat fields, and His disciples became hungry, and began to pull the heads of wheat and eat them.

And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, "Just look! Your disciples are doing something that it is against the law to do on the sabbath!"

Or, did you never read in the law that the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and yet are not guilty?

For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath."

Now there was a man there with one hand withered. And, to get a charge against Him, they asked Him, "Is it right to cure people on the sabbath?"

But He said to them, "What man is there among you, if he has only one sheep and it falls into a ditch on the sabbath, will not lay hold on it and lift it out?

And how much more a man is worth than a sheep! So it is right to do good on the sabbath."

And pray for your flight not to be in winter or on the Sabbath,

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were dumbfounded when they heard Him, and said, "Where did He get all these things? What sort of wisdom is it that has been given Him? And such mighty deeds are done by Him!

They went into Capernaum, and as soon as the first Sabbath came, He went into the synagogue and began to teach.

On the Sabbath He was passing through the wheat fields, and His disciples started to make a path by pulling off the wheat heads.

So the Pharisees were saying to Him, "Just look! Why are they doing on the Sabbath what it is against the law to do?"

So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."

And they kept closely watching Him, to see whether He would cure him on the Sabbath, to get a charge to bring against Him.

Then He asked them, "Is it right to do people good on the Sabbath, or to do them evil, to save life or to take it?" But they had nothing to say.

When the Sabbath had ended, Mary of Magdala, Mary, James's mother, and Salome bought spices to go and anoint Him.