'Sabbath day' in the Bible
the Jews said to him that was cured, it is the sabbath-day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.
upon which occasion the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he did such things on the sabbath-day.
Moses enjoin'd you circumcision (or rather not Moses, but the patriarchs) accordingly you circumcise a man on the sabbath-day.
if to avoid the violation of the Mosaic law, a man be exposed to circumcision on the sabbath-day, are ye angry at me, because I cured a man, whose whole body was indisposed on the sabbath-day?
now it was the sabbath-day when Jesus made the clay, and gave him his sight.
Now for fear the bodies should remain upon the cross on the sabbath-day, for it was then the eve of the pascal-sabbath, a day of high solemnity, the Jews desired Pilate that their legs might be broke, and that they might be taken away.