27 Bible Verses about The Sabbath And Christ

But the Pharisees saw it and said to Him, "Look! your disciples are doing what the Law forbids them to do on the Sabbath."

So the Pharisees said to Him, "Look! why are they doing what on the Sabbath is unlawful?"

And some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what the Law forbids on the Sabbath?"

And have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath without incurring guilt?

That day was a Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath: you must not carry your mat."

Then the Warden of the Synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured her on a Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are six days in the week on which people ought to work. On those days therefore come and get yourselves cured, and not on the Sabbath day."

where there was a man with a shrivelled arm. And they questioned Him, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath?" Their intention was to bring a charge against Him.

This led Jesus to ask the lawyers and Pharisees, "Is it allowable to cure people on the Sabbath?"

They closely watched Him to see whether He would cure him on the Sabbath--so as to have a charge to bring against Him.

The Scribes and the Pharisees were on the watch to see whether He would cure him on the Sabbath that they might be able to bring an accusation against Him.

Instantly the man was restored to perfect health, and he took up his mat and began to walk.

and on this account the Jews began to persecute Jesus--because He did these things on the Sabbath.

Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened the man's eyes was the Sabbath.

On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to death--because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a level with God.

This led some of the Pharisees to say, "That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible for a bad man to do such miracles?" argued others.

Then He asked them, "Are we allowed to do good on the Sabbath, or to do evil? to save a life, or to destroy one?" They remained silent.

Then Jesus said to them, "I put it to you all whether we are allowed to do good on the Sabbath, or to do evil; to save a life, or to destroy it."

"Which of you is there," He replied, "who, if he has but a single sheep and it falls into a hole on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?

But the Lord's reply to him was, "Hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his bullock or his ass from the stall and lead him to water?

Then He turned to them and said, "Which of you shall have a child or an ox fall into a well on the Sabbath day, and will not immediately lift him out?"

If a child is circumcised even on a Sabbath day, are you bitter against me because I have restored a man to perfect health on a Sabbath day?

Is not a man, however, far superior to a sheep? Therefore it is right to do good on the Sabbath."

And Jesus said to them: "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath;

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

so that the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."

"The Son of Man," He added, "is Lord of the Sabbath also."

Therefore suffer no one to sit in judgement on you as to eating or drinking or with regard to a festival, a new moon or a sabbath.