Rejection at Nazareth

He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As usual, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.

Driving Out an Unclean Spirit

Then He went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath.

Lord of the Sabbath

On a Sabbath, He passed through the grainfields. His disciples were picking heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.

But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”

Then He told them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

The Man with the Paralyzed Hand

On another Sabbath He entered the synagogue and was teaching. A man was there whose right hand was paralyzed.

The scribes and Pharisees were watching Him closely, to see if He would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a charge against Him.

Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do what is good or to do what is evil, to save life or to destroy it?”

Healing a Daughter of Abraham

As He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”

But the Lord answered him and said, “Hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you untie his ox or donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath and lead it to water?

Satan has bound this woman, a daughter of Abraham, for 18 years—shouldn’t she be untied from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

A Sabbath Controversy

One Sabbath, when He went to eat at the house of one of the leading Pharisees, they were watching Him closely.

In response, Jesus asked the law experts and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

And to them, He said, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a well, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”

It was preparation day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.

Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.