27 Bible Verses about The Sabbath And Christ

But, when the Pharisees saw this, they said: "Look! your disciples are doing what it is not allowable to do on a Sabbath!"

"Look!" the Pharisees said to him, "why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?"

"Why are you doing what it is not allowable to do on the Sabbath?" asked some of the Pharisees.

And have not you read in the law that, on the Sabbath, the priest in the Temple break the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured: "This is the Sabbath; you must not carry your mat."

But the President of the Synagogue, indignant that Jesus had worked the cure on the Sabbath, interposed and said to the people: "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come to be cured on one of those, and not on the Sabbath."

And there he saw a man with a withered hand. Some people asked Jesus whether it was allowable to work a cure on the Sabbath- -so that they might have a charge to bring against him.

"Is it allowable," said Jesus, addressing the Students of the Law and the Pharisees, "to work a cure on the Sabbath, or is it not?"

And they watched Jesus closely, to see if he would cure the man on the Sabbath, so that they might have a charge to bring against him.

The Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely, to see if he would work cures on the Sabbath, so that they might find a charge to bring against him.

The man was cured immediately, and took up his mat and began to walk about.

And that was why the Jews began to persecute Jesus--because he did things of this kind on the Sabbath.

Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and gave him his sight.

This made the Jews all the more eager to kill him, because not only was he doing away with the Sabbath, but he actually called God his own Father--putting himself on an equality with God.

"The man cannot be from God," said some of the Pharisees, "for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible," retorted others, "for a bad man to give signs like this?"

And to the people he said: "Is it allowable to do good on the Sabbath--or harm? to save a life, or destroy it?"

And Jesus said to them: "I ask you, is it allowable to do good on the Sabbath--or harm? to save a life, or let it perish?"

But Jesus said to them: "Which of you, if he had only one sheep, and that sheep fell into a pit on the Sabbath, would not lay hold of it and pull it out?

"You hypocrites!" the Master answered him. "Does not every one of you let his ox or his ass loose from its manger, and take it out to drink, on the Sabbath?

And he said to them: "Which of you, finding that his son or his ox has fallen into a well, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath Day?"

When a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath to prevent the Law of Moses from being broken, how can you be angry with me for making a man sound and well on a Sabbath?

And how much more precious a man is than a sheep! Therefore it is allowable to do good on the Sabbath."

Then Jesus added: "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;

For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."

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

Then Jesus added: "The Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."

Do not, then, allow any one to take you to task on questions of eating or drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly or weekly festivals.