And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and on the sabbath they rested, according to the commandment.

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?

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

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

For we who believed enter into the rest, as he hath said: "So I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.