Bible Verses About Sabbath

How much better is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do a good deed on the sabbath days.

Then he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand; and he stretched it forth, and it was restored to health even as the other.

But pray that your flight be not in the winter or on the sabbath.

And the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,

And in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre.

And the angel answering, said to the women: Fear not you: for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.

He is not here. For he is risen, as he said. Come, and see the place where the Lord was laid.

And behold, Jesus met them, saying: All hail. But they came up and took hold of his feet and adored him.

And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

Therefore the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath also.

And when the Sabbath was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were in admiration at his doctrine, saying: How came this man by all these things? and what wisdom is this that is given to him, and such mighty works as are wrought by his hands?

And when evening was now come (because it was the Parasceve, that is, the day before the sabbath),

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus.

But he rising early the first day of the week, appeared first to Mary Magdalen; out of whom he had cast seven devils.

And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up: and he went into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the sabbath day: and he rose up to read.

And he went down into Capharnaum, a city of Galilee: and there he taught them on the sabbath days.

And it came to pass on the second first sabbath that, as he went through the corn fields, his disciples plucked the ears and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.

And some of the Pharisees said to them: Why do you that which is not lawful on the sabbath days?

And Jesus answering them, said: Have you not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was hungry and they that were with him:

How he went into the house of God and took and ate the bread of proposition and gave to them that were with him, which is not lawful to eat but only for the priests?

And he said to them: The Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

And it came to pass also, on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught. And there was a man whose right hand was withered.

And the scribes and Pharisees watched if he would heal on the sabbath: that they might find an accusation against him.

But he knew their thoughts and said to the man who had the withered hand: Arise and stand forth in the midst. And rising he stood forth.

Then Jesus said to them: I ask you, if it be lawful on the sabbath days to do good or to do evil? To save life or to destroy?