Luke 6:2

New International Version

Some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

Cross References

Exodus 22:10

“If anyone gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep or any other animal to their neighbor for safekeeping and it dies or is injured or is taken away while no one is looking,

Exodus 31:15

For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

Exodus 35:2

For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a day of sabbath rest to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it is to be put to death.

Isaiah 58:13

“If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,

Matthew 12:2

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

Matthew 15:2

“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!”

Mark 2:24

The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

Luke 5:33

They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.”

John 5:16

So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.