Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?"

And the scribes and Pharisees, seeing Him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, said to His disciples, "Why does He eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not notice the plank in your own eye?

Hypocrite! First remove the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

"Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread."

He answered and said to them, "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God on account of your tradition?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the more important [things] of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These things you should have done, and not have neglected the others.

Blind guides, you who strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel!

For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you be weary and discouraged in your souls.

But on the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God; on it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your servant nor your maidservant, your ox, nor your donkey, nor any cattle of yours, nor the stranger that sojourns with you.

Six days you shall work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath, a holy rest unto the Lord; everyone who shall do a work on the seventh day shall be put to death.

Six days shall you perform works, but on the seventh day [shall be] a rest- a holy Sabbath- a rest unto the Lord: everyone that does work on it, let him die.

You shall not burn a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day; I [am] the Lord.

And the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

And they placed him in custody, for they did not determine what they should do to him.

And all the congregation brought him forth out of the camp; and all the congregation stoned him with stones outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.

In those days I saw in Judah [men] treading wine-presses on the Sabbath, and carrying sheaves, and loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and every [kind of] burden, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.

And I strove with the free children of Judah, and said to them, What [is] this evil thing which you do, and profane the Sabbath day?

And it came to pass, when the gates were set up in Jerusalem, before the Sabbath, that I spoke, and they shut the gates; and I gave orders that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath. And I set [some] of my servants at the gates, that none should bring [in] burdens on the Sabbath day.

Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why do you lodge in front of the wall? If you do so again, I will stretch out my hand upon you. From that time they came not on the Sabbath.

Blessed is the man that does these things, and the man that holds by them, and keeps the Sabbaths, from profaning them, and keeps his hands from doing unrighteousness.

Thus says the Lord to the eunuchs: as many as shall keep My Sabbaths, and choose the things which I take pleasure in, and take hold of My covenant;

And [I will give it] to the strangers that attach themselves to the Lord, to serve Him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be to Him servants and handmaids; and [as for] all that keep My Sabbaths, from profaning [them], and that take hold of My covenant,

If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, so as not to do your pleasure on the holy days, and shall call the Sabbaths delightful, holy to God; [if] you shall not lift up your foot to work, nor speak a word in anger out of your mouth,

And you shall say to them: Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all Judea, and all Jerusalem, [all] who go in at these gates:

and carry forth no burdens out of your houses on the Sabbath day, and you shall do no work. Sanctify the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

And it shall come to pass, if you will hearken to Me, says the Lord, to carry in no burdens through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and to sanctify the Sabbath day, so as to do no work [upon it],

And [men] shall come out of the cities of Judah, and from round about Jerusalem, and out of the land of Benjamin, and out of the plain country, and from the hill country, and from the south, bringing whole burnt offerings, sacrifices, incense, manna, and frankincense, and bringing praise to the house of the Lord.