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Bible Verses About Sabbath

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  1. Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.”

  2. Then he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.

  3. Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,

  4. Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

  5. Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Miriam Magdalene and the other Miriam came to see the tomb.

  6. The angel answered the women, “Don’t be afraid, for I know that you seek Yeshua, who has been crucified.

  7. He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying.

  8. As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Yeshua met them, saying, “Rejoice!” They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.

  9. He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

  10. Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

  11. When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things?” and, “What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?

  12. When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

  13. When the Sabbath was past, Miriam Magdalene, and Miriam the mother of Jacob, and Shalom, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

  14. Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Miriam Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

  15. He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

  16. He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,

  17. Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands.

  18. But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

  19. Yeshua, answering them, said, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;

  20. how he entered into God’s house, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?”

  21. He said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

  22. It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was withered.

  23. The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

  24. But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Rise up, and stand in the middle.” He arose and stood.

  25. Then Yeshua said to them, “I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?”