20. So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.

21. Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath.

2. The Sabbath a Day for Religious Worship.

Ezek. XLVI, 3. Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the Lord in the Sabbaths and in the new moons.

Lev. XIX, 30. Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

Mark VI, 2. And when the Sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?

Luke IV, 16. And 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 for to read.

Luke IV, 31. And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the Sabbath days.

Luke XIII, 10. And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.

Acts XIII, 14. But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.