Bible Verses About Sabbath

Then, after looking around at all of them, he said to the man, "Hold out your hand." As he held it out, his hand was restored.

Yeshua was teaching in one of the synagogues on Shabbat.

A woman came up who had a spirit which had crippled her for eighteen years; she was bent double and unable to stand erect at all.

On seeing her, Yeshua called her and said to her, “Lady, you have been set free from your weakness!”

He put his hands on her, and at once she stood upright and began to glorify God.

But the president of the synagogue, indignant that Yeshua had healed on Shabbat, spoke up and said to the congregation, “There are six days in the week for working; so come during those days to be healed, not on Shabbat!”

However, the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Each one of you on Shabbat — don’t you unloose your ox or your donkey from the stall and lead him off to drink?

This woman is a daughter of Avraham, and the Adversary kept her tied up for eighteen years! Shouldn’t she be freed from this bondage on Shabbat?”

By these words, Yeshua put to shame the people who opposed him; but the rest of the crowd were happy about all the wonderful things that were taking place through him.

One Shabbat Yeshua went to eat in the home of one of the leading P’rushim, and they were watching him closely.

In front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.

Yeshua spoke up and asked the Torah experts and P’rushim, “Does the Torah allow healing on Shabbat or not?”

But they said nothing. So, taking hold of him, he healed him and sent him away.

To them he said, “Which of you, if a son or an ox falls into a well, will hesitate to haul him out on Shabbat?”

And to these things they could give no answer.

It was Preparation Day, and a Shabbat was about to begin.

Then they went back home to prepare spices and ointments. On Shabbat the women rested, in obedience to the commandment;

One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

Yeshua, seeing this man and knowing that he had been there a long time, said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”

The sick man answered, “I have no one to put me in the pool when the water is disturbed; and while I’m trying to get there, someone goes in ahead of me.”

Yeshua said to him, “Get up, pick up your mat and walk!”

Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and walked. Now that day was Shabbat,

so the Judeans said to the man who had been healed, “It’s Shabbat! It’s against Torah for you to carry your mat!”

But he answered them, “The man who healed me — he’s the one who told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

They asked him, “Who is the man who told you to pick it up and walk?”