Sabbath occurs 135 times in 113 verses in the NKJV.
Exo 16:23 NKJV -
"Then he said to them, "This [is what] the LORD has said: 'Tomorrow [is] a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will bake [today], and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.' ""
"Then Moses said, "Eat that today, for today [is] a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field."
""Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.""
""See! For the LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.""
Exo 20:10 NKJV -
"but the seventh day [is] the Sabbath of the LORD your God. [In it] you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who [is] within your gates."
Exo 20:11 NKJV -
"For [in] six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it."
"'You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for [it is] holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does [any] work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people."
Exo 31:15 NKJV -
"'Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh [is] the Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does [any] work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death."
"'Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations [as] a perpetual covenant."
""Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death."
""You shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the Sabbath day.""
""It [is] a sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls. [It is] a statute forever."
"'Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day [is] a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work [on it]; it [is] the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings."
Lev 23:11 NKJV -
"'He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it."
Lev 23:15 NKJV -
"'And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed."
"'Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the LORD."
Lev 23:24 NKJV -
""Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'In the seventh month, on the first [day] of the month, you shall have a sabbath-[rest], a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation."
Lev 23:32 NKJV -
""It [shall be] to you a sabbath of [solemn] rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth [day] of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath.""
"'Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD [for] seven days; on the first day [there shall be] a sabbath-[rest], and on the eighth day a sabbath-[rest]."
Lev 24:8 NKJV -
""Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, [being taken] from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant."
Lev 25:2 NKJV -
""Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the LORD."
Lev 25:4 NKJV -
"'but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard."
Lev 25:6 NKJV -
"'And the sabbath [produce] of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you,"
Num 15:32 NKJV -
"Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day."
Num 28:9 NKJV -
"'And on the Sabbath day two lambs in their first year, without blemish, and two-tenths [of an ephah] of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, with its drink offering--"
"'[this is] the burnt offering for every Sabbath, besides the regular burnt offering with its drink offering."
Deut 5:12 NKJV -
"'Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you."
"but the seventh day [is] the Sabbath of the LORD your God. [In it] you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who [is] within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you."
"And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day."
"So he said, "Why are you going to him today? [It is] neither the New Moon nor the Sabbath." And she said, "[It is] well.""
"Then he commanded them, saying, "This [is] what you shall do: One-third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath shall be keeping watch over the king's house,"
""The two contingents of you who go off duty on the Sabbath shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD for the king."
"So the captains of the hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. Each of them took his men who were to be on duty on the Sabbath, with those who were going off duty on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest."
"Also he removed the Sabbath pavilion which they had built in the temple, and he removed the king's outer entrance from the house of the LORD, on account of the king of Assyria."
"And some of their brethren of the sons of the Kohathites [were] in charge of preparing the showbread for every Sabbath."
TAKE NOTE THAT THE KOHATHITES WERE A SUB TRIBE OF LEVI WHO HAD VERY SPECIAL DUTIES.
2Ch 23:4 NKJV -
""This [is] what you shall do: One-third of you entering on the Sabbath, of the priests and the Levites, [shall be] keeping watch over the doors;"
"So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And each man took his men who were to be on duty on the Sabbath, with those who were going [off duty] on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest had not dismissed the divisions."
"to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years."
"You made known to them Your holy Sabbath, And commanded them precepts, statutes and laws, By the hand of Moses Your servant."
"[if] the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and we would forego the seventh year's [produce] and the exacting of every debt."
"In those days I saw [people] in Judah treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and all [kinds of] burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned [them] about the day on which they were selling provisions."
Neh 13:16 NKJV -
"Men of Tyre dwelt there also, who brought in fish and all kinds of goods, and sold [them] on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem."
Neh 13:17 NKJV -
"Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, "What evil thing [is] this that you do, by which you profane the Sabbath day?"
Neh 13:18 NKJV -
""Did not your fathers do thus, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Yet you bring added wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.""
"So it was, at the gates of Jerusalem, as it began to be dark before the Sabbath, that I commanded the gates to be shut, and charged that they must not be opened till after the Sabbath. Then I posted [some] of my servants at the gates, [so that] no burdens would be brought in on the Sabbath day."
Neh 13:21 NKJV -
"Then I warned them, and said to them, "Why do you spend the night around the wall? If you do [so] again, I will lay hands on you!" From that time on they came no [more] on the Sabbath."
Neh 13:22 NKJV -
"And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should go and guard the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, [concerning] this also, and spare me according to the greatness of Your mercy!"
Psa 92:1 NKJV -
"A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath day. [It is] good to give thanks to the LORD, And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;"
Isa 56:2 NKJV -
"Blessed [is] the man [who] does this, And the son of man [who] lays hold on it; Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And keeps his hand from doing any evil.""
Isa 56:6 NKJV -
""Also the sons of the foreigner Who join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him, And to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants--Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And holds fast My covenant--"
Isa 58:13 NKJV -
""If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, [From] doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy [day] of the LORD honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking [your own] words,"
Isa 66:23 NKJV -
"And it shall come to pass [That] from one New Moon to another, And from one Sabbath to another, All flesh shall come to worship before Me," says the LORD."
Jer 17:21 NKJV -
"'Thus says the LORD: "Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of Jerusalem;"
Jer 17:22 NKJV -
""nor carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work, but hallow the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers."
Jer 17:24 NKJV -
""And it shall be, if you heed Me carefully," says the LORD, "to bring no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work in it,"
Jer 17:27 NKJV -
""But if you will not heed Me to hallow the Sabbath day, such as not carrying a burden when entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched." ' ""
Eze 46:1 NKJV -
"'Thus says the Lord GOD: "The gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened."
Eze 46:4 NKJV -
""The burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD on the Sabbath day [shall be] six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish;"
Eze 46:12 NKJV -
""Now when the prince makes a voluntary burnt offering or voluntary peace offering to the LORD, the gate that faces toward the east shall then be opened for him; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he did on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he goes out the gate shall be shut."
Amo 8:5 NKJV -
"Saying: "When will the New Moon be past, That we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, That we may trade wheat? Making the ephah small and the shekel large, Falsifying the scales by deceit,"
Mat 12:1 NKJV -
"At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat."
Mat 12:2 NKJV -
"And when the Pharisees saw [it], they said to Him, "Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!""
Mat 12:5 NKJV -
""Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?"
Mat 12:8 NKJV -
""For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.""
Mat 12:10 NKJV -
"And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"--that they might accuse Him."
Mat 12:11 NKJV -
"Then He said to them, "What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift [it] out?"
Mat 12:12 NKJV -
""Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.""
Mat 24:20 NKJV -
""And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath."
Mat 28:1 NKJV -
"Now after the Sabbath, as the first [day] of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb."
Mar 1:21 NKJV -
"Then they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath He entered the synagogue and taught."
Mar 2:23 NKJV -
"Now it happened that He went through the grainfields on the Sabbath; and as they went His disciples began to pluck the heads of grain."
Mar 2:24 NKJV -
"And the Pharisees said to Him, "Look, why do they do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?""
Mar 2:27 NKJV -
"And He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath."
Mar 2:28 NKJV -
""Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.""
Mar 3:2 NKJV -
"So they watched Him closely, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him."
Mar 3:4 NKJV -
"Then He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they kept silent."
Mar 6:2 NKJV -
"And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing [Him] were astonished, saying, "Where [did] this Man [get] these things? And what wisdom [is] this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands!"
Mar 15:42 NKJV -
"Now when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,"
Mar 16:1 NKJV -
"Now when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary [the mother] of James, and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint Him."
Luk 4:16 NKJV -
"So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read."
Luk 6:1 NKJV -
"Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first that He went through the grainfields. And His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate [them], rubbing [them] in [their] hands."
Luk 6:2 NKJV -
"And some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?""
Luk 6:5 NKJV -
"And He said to them, "The Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.""
Luk 6:6 NKJV -
"Now it happened on another Sabbath, also, that He entered the synagogue and taught. And a man was there whose right hand was withered."
Luk 6:7 NKJV -
"So the scribes and Pharisees watched Him closely, whether He would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against Him."
Luk 6:9 NKJV -
"Then Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one thing: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy?""
Luk 13:10 NKJV -
"Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath."
Luk 13:14 NKJV -
"But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, "There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.""
Luk 13:15 NKJV -
"The Lord then answered him and said, "Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead [it] away to water it?"
Luk 13:16 NKJV -
""So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound--think of it--for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?""
Luk 14:1 NKJV -
"Now it happened, as He went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they watched Him closely."
Luk 14:3 NKJV -
"And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?""
Luk 14:5 NKJV -
"Then He answered them, saying, "Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?""
Luk 23:54 NKJV -
"That day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew near."
Luk 23:56 NKJV -
"Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment."
Jhn 5:9 NKJV -
"And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath."
Jhn 5:10 NKJV -
"The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.""
Jhn 5:16 NKJV -
"For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath."
Jhn 5:18 NKJV -
"Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God."
Jhn 7:22 NKJV -
""Moses therefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath."
Jhn 7:23 NKJV -
""If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?"
Jhn 9:14 NKJV -
"Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes."
Jhn 9:16 NKJV -
"Therefore some of the Pharisees said, "This Man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" And there was a division among them."
Jhn 19:31 NKJV -
"Therefore, because it was the Preparation [Day], that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away."
Act 1:12 NKJV -
"Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey."
Act 13:14 NKJV -
"But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down."
Act 13:27 NKJV -
""For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not know Him, nor even the voices of the Prophets which are read every Sabbath, have fulfilled [them] in condemning [Him]."
Act 13:42 NKJV -
"So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath."
Act 13:44 NKJV -
"On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God."
Act 15:21 NKJV -
""For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.""
Act 16:13 NKJV -
"And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met [there]."
Act 18:4 NKJV -
"And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks."
