Matthew 12:5 KJV — MannaFest

Matthew 12:5

Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

KJV

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ASV

Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?

WEB

Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent?

YLT

`Or did ye not read in the Law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple do profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

DBT

Or have ye not read in the law that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

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Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.

Author: Matthew (Levi), a former tax collector called by Jesus
Date: c. AD 50–60

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Cross-references

8 verses on the floor

Numbers 28:9–10
And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:
Matthew 9:13
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
John 7:22–23
Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
Matthew 12:3
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
John 7:23
If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

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This intimates, that those labours are lawful on the sabbath day which are necessary, not only to the support of life, but to the service of the day; as tolling a bell to call the congregation together, travelling to church, and the like. Sabbath rest is to promote, not to hinder, sabbath worship.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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