John 7:23
But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?
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- Matt 12:5 : 5 Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?
- John 5:8-9 : 8 Jesus said to him,“Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking.(Now that day was a Sabbath.)
- John 5:14-16 : 14 After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him,“Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you.” 15 The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well. 16 Responding to Jewish Leaders Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.
- Matt 12:2 : 2 But when the Pharisees saw this they said to him,“Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath.”
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- John 7:21-222 verses86%
21 Jesus replied,“I performed one miracle and you are all amazed.
22 However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision(not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.
- Luke 13:14-163 verses75%
14 But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd,“There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day.”
15 Then the Lord answered him,“You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from its stall, and lead it to water?
16 Then shouldn’t this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?”
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3 So Jesus asked the experts in religious law and the Pharisees,“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”
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24 Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment.”
- Matt 12:10-134 verses73%
10 A man was there who had a withered hand. And they asked Jesus,“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” so that they could accuse him.
11 He said to them,“Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?
12 How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
13 Then he said to the man,“Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and it was restored, as healthy as the other.
- Mark 3:4-52 verses73%
4 Then he said to them,“Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?” But they were silent.
5 After looking around at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man,“Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
- Mark 2:23-242 verses73%
23 Lord of the Sabbath Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.
24 So the Pharisees said to him,“Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”
- Luke 6:5-106 verses73%
5 Then he said to them,“The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
6 Healing a Withered Hand On another Sabbath, Jesus entered the synagogue and was teaching. Now a man was there whose right hand was withered.
7 The experts in the law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a reason to accuse him.
8 But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand,“Get up and stand here.” So he rose and stood there.
9 Then Jesus said to them,“I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save a life or to destroy it?”
10 After looking around at them all, he said to the man,“Stretch out your hand.” The man did so, and his hand was restored.
- Luke 6:1-22 verses73%
1 Lord of the Sabbath Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples picked some heads of wheat, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them.
2 But some of the Pharisees said,“Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”
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19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”
- John 5:9-124 verses72%
9 Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking.(Now that day was a Sabbath.)
10 So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed,“It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”
11 But he answered them,“The man who made me well said to me,‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12 They asked him,“Who is the man who said to you,‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”
- Matt 12:1-22 verses71%
1 Lord of the Sabbath At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on a Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pick heads of wheat and eat them.
2 But when the Pharisees saw this they said to him,“Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath.”
- John 5:15-184 verses71%
15 The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
16 Responding to Jewish Leaders Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.
17 So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”
18 For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.
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16 Then some of the Pharisees began to say,“This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath.” But others said,“How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division among them.
- Mark 2:27-282 verses71%
27 Then he said to them,“The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.
28 For this reason the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
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8 For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
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5 Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?
- Mark 3:1-22 verses70%
1 Healing a Withered Hand Then Jesus entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand.
2 They watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they could accuse him.
- Rom 2:25-273 verses69%
25 For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26 Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
27 The physically uncircumcised man, by keeping the law, will judge you to be the transgressor of the law, even though you have the letter and circumcision!
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18 Was anyone called after he had been circumcised? He should not try to undo his circumcision. Was anyone called who is uncircumcised? He should not get circumcised.
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14 (Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)
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5 The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him,“Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”
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5 Then he said to them,“Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”
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10 Healing on the Sabbath Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,
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13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”