The blasphemer and sabbath-breaker is unfit to correct his child, for swearing and sabbath-breaking. ❋ Samuel Philips (N/A)
Now I ask if this child should become a sabbath-breaker, or a liar, a thief, or a drunkard, or an adulterer, not having the advantage to know better, I ask who is the degraded man? ❋ Greensbury Washington (1859)
The dress, the deportment, the language, the studies, the amusements of the rigid sect were regulated on principles not unlike those of the Pharisees who, proud of their washed hands and broad phylacteries, taunted the Redeemer as a sabbath-breaker and a winebibber. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)
In his whole life he was numbered among the transgressors; for he was called and accounted a sabbath-breaker, a drunkard, and a friend to publicans and sinners. ❋ Unknown (1721)
We have here Christ's discourse upon occasion of his being accused as a sabbath-breaker, and it seems to be his vindication of himself before the sanhedrim, when he was arraigned before them: whether on the same day, or two or three days after, does not appear; probably the same day. ❋ Unknown (1721)
Secondly, Why he conveyed himself away, because there was a multitude there, and he industriously avoided both the applause of those who would admire the miracle and cry that up, and the censure of those who would censure him as a sabbath-breaker, and run him down. ❋ Unknown (1721)
This they enquired not with any sincere desire to find out the truth, by tracing the report to the original, but with a desire to find an occasion against Christ; for, if the man should relate the matter fully, they would prove Christ a sabbath-breaker; if he should vary from his former story, they would have some colour to suspect the whole to be a collusion. ❋ Unknown (1721)
Christ was accused as a sabbath-breaker, and as an imposter. ❋ Unknown (1721)
He was reproached as a bad man, as a blasphemer, a sabbath-breaker, a wine-bibber, a false prophet, an enemy to Caesar, a confederate with the prince of the devils. ❋ Unknown (1721)
Sentence was passed; the prisoner was adjudged a sabbath-breaker, according to the intent of that law, and as such he must be put to death; and to show how great the crime was, and how displeasing to God, and that others might hear and fear and not do in like manner presumptuously, that death is appointed him which was looked upon as most terrible: He must be stoned with stones, v. 35. ❋ Unknown (1721)
The punishment of presumptuous sins (ver. 30, 31), and an instance given in the sabbath-breaker, ver. ❋ Unknown (1721)
As many as could were employed in the execution, that those, at least, might be afraid of breaking the sabbath, who had thrown a stone at this sabbath-breaker. ❋ Unknown (1721)
God-forsaking man, a swearer and a sabbath-breaker —’ ❋ Sayers, Dorothy L. (1937)
