Question 65

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Exodus 20:8

8Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

Exodus 20:10

10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.

Exodus 16:25-28

25“Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you will not find anything in the field.

26For six days you may gather, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be there.”

27Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything.

28Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?

Nehemiah 13:15-19

15In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.

16Additionally, men of Tyre who lived there were importing fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem.

17Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?

18Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city? And now you are rekindling His wrath against Israel by profaning the Sabbath!”

19When the evening shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem, just before the Sabbath, I ordered that the gates be shut and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my servants at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.

Nehemiah 13:21-22

21but I warned them, “Why are you camping in front of the wall? If you do it again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they did not return on the Sabbath.

22Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this as well, O my God, and show me mercy according to Your abundant loving devotion.

Luke 14:16

16But Jesus replied, “A certain man prepared a great banquet and invited many guests.

Acts 20:7

7On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.

Psalms 92:1-15

1It is good to praise the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,

2to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night

3with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.

4For You, O LORD, have made me glad by Your deeds; I sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

5How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!

6A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,

7that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

8But You, O LORD, are exalted forever!

9For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

10But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.

11My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes.

12The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

13Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

14In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,

15to proclaim, “The LORD is upright; He is my Rock, and in Him there is no unrighteousness.”

Isaiah 66:23

23From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.

Matthew 12:1-13

1At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.

2When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”

3Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

4He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.

5Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent?

6But I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.

7If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

8For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

9Moving on from there, Jesus entered their synagogue,

10and a man with a withered hand was there. In order to accuse Jesus, they asked Him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

11He replied, “If one of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out?

12How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

13Then Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored to full use, just like the other.