Luke 23:56

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments, and they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.

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  • Mark 16:1 : 1 And when the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought sweet spices so they might go and anoint him.
  • Luke 24:1 : 1 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they went to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared, and certain others with them.
  • Exod 20:8-9 : 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor the stranger who is within your gates.
  • Exod 31:14 : 14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you: everyone who defiles it shall surely be put to death: for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.
  • Exod 35:2-3 : 2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. 3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the sabbath day.
  • Deut 5:14 : 14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
  • 2 Chr 16:14 : 14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art; and they made a very great burning for him.
  • Isa 58:13-14 : 13 If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words: 14 Then you shall delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride on the high places of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
  • Jer 17:24-25 : 24 And it shall come to pass, if you diligently listen to me, says the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein; 25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain forever.

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