| The ancient Israelites celebrated the sabbath as a day of solemn rest but as a festive occasion as well. |
| Whereas John had worked outside settled areas, Jesus went from town to town, village to village, usually preaching in synagogues on the sabbath. |
| The Mithraists observed weekly sabbath days and celebrated the Eucharist by eating wafers marked with a cross. |
| Enacted at Paris, in the year of grace 1221, in the month of February, on the sabbath after the feast of St. Matthew the apostle. |
| The story went that every year on April 30th the witches from all over Germany would fly on their brooms to meet and celebrate the witches' sabbath on the Brocken mountain. |
| Our highest calling is to our God, the One God, before whom we have no other gods, whose name we do not take in vain, and whose sabbath day we keep sacred. |
