Quotes about Controversy
One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain as they walked along.
- Mark 2:23
So the Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”
- Mark 2:24
In order to accuse Jesus, they were watching to see if He would heal on the Sabbath.
- Mark 3:2
And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons He drives out demons.”
- Mark 3:22
Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus,
- Mark 7:1
But some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”
- Luke 6:2
but some of them said, “It is by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons, that He drives out demons.”
- Luke 11:15
As Jesus went on from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him bitterly and to ply Him with questions about many things,
- Luke 11:53
So Jesus asked the experts in the law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”
- Luke 14:3
Then a dispute arose between John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the issue of ceremonial washing.
- John 3:25
so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It is unlawful for you to carry your mat.”
- John 5:10
Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.
- John 5:16