Matthew 12
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Matthew 12:2-8

2But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples do what 1is not lawful to do on a Sabbath.” 3But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions, 4how he entered the house of God, and 2they ate the 3consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone? 5Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple 4break the Sabbath and are innocent? 6But I say to you that something 5greater than the temple is here. 7But if you had known what this 6means, ‘7I desire 8compassion, and not a sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent. 8For 9the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

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Notes

  1. 1. Matthew 12:2 Matt 12:10; Luke 13:14; 14:3; John 5:10; 7:23; 9:16 ↩
  2. 2. Matthew 12:4 1 Sam 21:6 ↩
  3. 3. Matthew 12:4 Or showbread; lit loaves of presentation ↩
  4. 4. Matthew 12:5 Or profane ↩
  5. 5. Matthew 12:6 2 Chr 6:18; Is 66:1, 2; Matt 12:41, 42 ↩
  6. 6. Matthew 12:7 Lit is ↩
  7. 7. Matthew 12:7 Hos 6:6; Matt 9:13 ↩
  8. 8. Matthew 12:7 Or mercy ↩
  9. 9. Matthew 12:8 Matt 8:20; 12:32, 40 ↩

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