27 Bible Verses about The Sabbath And Christ
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But the Pharisees saw it and said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing something which it is against the Law to do on the Sabbath!"
And the Pharisees said to him, "Look! Why are they doing what it is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"
And some of the Pharisees said, "Why do you do what it is against the Law to do on the Sabbath?"
Or did you never read in the Law how the priests in the Temple are not guilty when they break the Sabbath?
Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the Law for you to carry your mat."
But the leader of the synagogue, in his vexation because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, spoke out and said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is right to work. Come on them and be cured, but not on the Sabbath day."
There was a man there with one hand withered. And in order to get a charge to bring against him, they asked him, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath?"
And Jesus said to the Pharisees and the experts in the Law, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath or not?"
And they were watching him closely, to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath, in order to get a charge to bring against him.
And the scribes and the Pharisees were on the watch to see whether he would cure people on the Sabbath, in order to find a charge to bring against him.
This was why the Jews used to persecute Jesus, because he did things like this on the Sabbath.
Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the clay and made him able to see.
On account of this the Jews were all the more eager to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but actually called God his Father, thus putting himself on an equality with God.
Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.
And he said to them, "Is it allowable to do people good on the Sabbath, or to do them harm? To save life or kill?" But they made no answer.
Jesus said to them, "I want to ask you, Is it allowable on the Sabbath to do people good or to do them harm? to save life or to destroy it?"
But he said to them, "Who among you if he has even a single sheep and it falls into a hole on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?
But the Master answered, "You hypocrites! Does not every one of you untie his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him away to water him?
Then he said to them, "Who among you, if his child or his ox falls into a well, will not pull him out at once on the Sabbath?"
But if a person undergoes circumcision on a Sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you angry at me for making a man perfectly well on a Sabbath?
And how much more a man is worth than a sheep! Therefore, it is right to do people good on the Sabbath."
And he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath,
So no one can call you to account for what you eat or drink, or do about annual or monthly feasts or Sabbaths.