The word sabbath is used 62 times after Malachi. 54 times the KJV translates it sabbath or sabbaths. 8 times they choose to use the word week instead of the word sabbath, rendering that sabbath as a the first day of the week.

Matthew 28:1

CLV ¹ Now it is the evening of the sabbaths. At the lighting up into one of the sabbaths came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to behold the sepulcher.

Obviously Mary and Mary travelled after dusk and before dawn before arriving to the tomb at dawn; on the same Hebrew day. They were still in the same one of the sabbaths after the nighttime became the daytime. Dawn doesn’t come at the end of the sabbath. Dawn comes so late that deep into the night is becoming early in the day. Luke 24:1 calls their time of arrival at the tomb “the early depths of one of the sabbaths”. Only Mark 16:9 calls it “the first sabbath”, making it the first of many, rather than just one of many.

Matthew 28:1

KJV¹ In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

Mark 16:2

CLV ² And, very early in the morning on one of the sabbaths, they are coming to the tomb at the rising of the sun.” [mia is the Greek word used here for one. proto means first]

Mark 16:2

KJV ² And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

Mark 16:9

CLV ⁹ Now, rising in the morning in the first sabbath, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.” [proto is used here for first]

Mark 16:9

KJV ⁹ Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

Luke 24:1

CLV ¹ Now in the early depths of one of the sabbaths, they, and certain others together with them, came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they make ready.”

Luke 24:1

KJV ¹ Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.

John 20:1

CLV ¹ Now, on one of the sabbaths, Miriam Magdalene is coming to the tomb in the morning, there being still darkness, and is observing the stone taken away from the door of the tomb.”

John 20:1

KJV ¹ The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

John 20:19

CLV ¹⁹ It being, then, the evening of that day, one of the sabbaths, and the doors having been locked where the disciples were gathered together, because of fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and is saying to them, “Peace to you!”

John 20:19

KJV ¹⁹ Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

Acts 20:7

CLV ⁷ Now on one of the sabbaths, at our having gathered to break bread, Paul argued with them, being about to be off on the morrow. Besides, he prolonged the word unto midnight.”

Acts 20:7

KJV ⁷ And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

1 Corinthians 16:2

CLV ² On one of the sabbaths let each of you lay aside by himself in store that in which he should be prospered, that no collections may be occurring then, whenever I may come.”

1 Corinthians 16:2

KJV ² Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

The KJV translates the Greek word mia 79 times. Only 7 times do they render mia to mean first rather than one. All 7 are within the eight verses listed above, adding another oddity to their translation of these verses. One verse of these 8 actually uses the Greek word for first, which is the word proto. They are definitely making unusual choices when they interpret these 8 verses.

And now the verse where they break this unusual rule of interpretation: they don’t call the first sabbath in Luke 6:1 the first day of the week or the second day of the week. If it was either a second Sunday or a second day of the week (Monday) then His disciples would not have been accused of working on a sabbath, so that unusual interpretation rule just won’t work in Luke 6:1.

All of the verses refer to one of the sabbaths or the first sabbath or the second first sabbath, in the season when they were supposed to count the sabbaths, which is called the Feast of Weeks or the Counting of the Omer. They are the sabbaths in the 50 days to Pentecost.

Luke 6:1

CLV ¹ Now it occurred on the second first sabbath, He is going through the sowings, and His disciples plucked the ears and ate, rubbing them together in their hands.”

Luke 6:1

KJV ¹ And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.

This second first sabbath could be the second weekly sabbath within the count to 50. It would be the first one within the 50 days that they counted to seven to get to since First Fruit was on a sabbath to begin with. Or it could be the first weekly sabbath after the first high sabbath making it the second first sabbath after the Passover. Unleavened bread also began and ended on a sabbath.

Since they are plucking grain on this sabbath it is definitely a sabbath within the 50 days of the Barley are harvest season. They were supposed to count the sabbaths, not the omers. If they called called it, “The Counting of the Sabbaths”, rather than “The Counting of the Omers”, then you might realize these sabbaths they are counting are not Sundays. Ears of grain aren’t ears of corn as King James may lead us to imagine either.

Acts 20:7,16

CLV ⁷ Now on one of the sabbaths, at our having gathered to break bread, Paul argued with them, being about to be off on the morrow. Besides, he prolonged the word unto midnight.”

KJV ¹⁶ For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost. [The day that arrives upon counting to the seventh day seven times]