27 Bible Verses about The Sabbath And Christ

But the Pharisees, when they perceived it, said to him. "Look! Your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!"

"Look," said the Pharisees to him, "Why are they doing on the Sabbath Day what is against the law?"

And some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?"

"Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless?

so the Jews kept saying to the man who had been cured. "It is the Sabbath Day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."

But the ruler of the synagogue was indignant at Jesus for healing her on the Sabbath, and said to the crowd. "There are six days of the week on which men ought to work. Therefore come during those, and get cured, but not on the Sabbath Day."

And in order to get a charge against him they asked him, "Is it permitted to heal on the Sabbath?" (So that they might have something to accuse him.)

So Jesus questioned the lawyers and the Pharisees, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath Day or not?"

And they kept watching Jesus to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath; so as to have some charge to bring against him.

Now the Scribes and Pharisees kept watching to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might be able to bring on accusations to him.

Instantly the man became well, and he took up his bed and started to walk. Now it was Sabbath on that day;

and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he had done it on the Sabbath.

Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes;

For this reason the Jews continued to seek the more eagerly to put him to death, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was actually speaking of God as his own Father, thus making himself of God's equal.

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"

Then he asked them. "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath Day, or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it?"

So he rose and stood. Then Jesus said to them. "I ask you whether it is lawful on the Sabbath Day to do good or to do harm? To save a life or to destroy it?"

"Is there a man of you," he replied, "who has but a single sheep, who will not lay hold of it and lift it out, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath Day?

But the Lord answered him. "Hypocrites!" he said, "does not each one of you loose his ox or his ass from the stall on the Sabbath Day, and lead it to water,

And to them he said, "Which of you when an ox or ass has fallen into a well, will at once pull him out on the Sabbath Day?"

"If a child receives circumcision on the Sabbath, in order that the Law of Moses may not be broken, how can you be angry with me because I made a man sound and well on the Sabbath?

"And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Therefore it is right to do good on the Sabbath."

"The Sabbath," he told them, "was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;

"you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath."

so the Son of man is Master even of the Sabbath."

"THE SON OF MAN," he told them, "IS LORD EVEN OVER THE SABBATH."

Therefore do not permit any one to sit in judgment on you in regard to what you may eat or drink, or in regard to feast-days or new moons or sabbaths.