Mark 2:27

New American Bible - revised edition

Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.

Cross References

Exodus 23:12

For six days you may do your work, but on the seventh day you must rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and that the son of your maidservant and the resident alien may be refreshed.

Isaiah 58:13

If you refrain from trampling the sabbath, from following your own pursuits on my holy day; If you call the sabbath a delight, the Lord’s holy day glorious; If you glorify it by not following your ways, seeking your own interests, or pursuing your own affairs—

Ezekiel 20:12

I also gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, to show that it is I, the Lord, who makes them holy.

Ezekiel 20:20

keep holy my sabbaths as a sign between me and you so that you may know that I am the Lord, your God.

Mark 2:28

That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”

Luke 6:9

Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?”

John 7:23

If a man can receive circumcision on a sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole person well on a sabbath?

2 Corinthians 4:15

Everything indeed is for you, so that the grace bestowed in abundance on more and more people may cause the thanksgiving to overflow for the glory of God.

Deuteronomy 5:12

Observe the sabbath day—keep it holy, as the Lord, your God, commanded you.

Deuteronomy 5:14

but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God. You shall not do any work, either you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or donkey or any work animal, or the resident alien within your gates, so that your male and female slave may rest as you do.

Colossians 2:16

Let no one, then, pass judgment on you in matters of food and drink or with regard to a festival or new moon or sabbath.