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What Jesus Said About the Sabbath
Every place in the Gospels where Jesus addresses the Sabbath, usually in the middle of a controversy over healing on it — 21 verses of direct speech, King James Version. No commentary, just what he said.
In Matthew (8 verses)
Matthew 12:3
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; Read in context →Matthew 12:4
How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests? Read in context →Matthew 12:5
Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless? Read in context →Matthew 12:6
But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple. Read in context →Matthew 12:7
But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. Read in context →Matthew 12:11
What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? Read in context →Matthew 12:12
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. Read in context →In Mark (3 verses)
Mark 3:4
Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? Read in context →In Luke (5 verses)
Luke 6:9
I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it? Read in context →Luke 13:15
Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? Read in context →Luke 13:16
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? Read in context →Luke 14:5
Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day? Read in context →In John (5 verses)
John 7:22
Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. Read in context →John 7:23
If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? Read in context →Explore other topics