Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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?
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Or haven't you read in the Law that on every Sabbath the priests in the Temple violate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?
A Conservative Version
Or have ye not read in the law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?
American Standard Version
Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?
Amplified
An Understandable Version
Or, have you not read in the law of Moses that the priests in the Temple defiled the Sabbath day [i.e., by doing the 'work' of offering sacrifices] and were not held guilty [of wrongdoing]? [See Num. 28:9-10]
Anderson New Testament
Or, have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath-days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?
Common New Testament
Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are innocent?
Daniel Mace New Testament
or have ye not observed in the law, what a work the priests made in the temple on the sabbath-day, without being blamed?
Darby Translation
Or have ye not read in the law that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Godbey New Testament
Have you not read in the law, that the priests in the temple do profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?
Goodspeed New Testament
Or did you never read in the Law how the priests in the Temple are not guilty when they break the Sabbath?
John Wesley New Testament
Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath-days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath and are blameless?
Julia Smith Translation
Or have ye not read in the law, that in the sabbaths, the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are innocent?
King James 2000
Or have you not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the sanctity of the Sabbath and are guiltless?
Modern King James verseion
Or have you not read in the Law that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath and are blameless?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Or have ye not read in the law, how that the priests in the temple break the Sabbath day, and yet are blameless?
Moffatt New Testament
Have you not read in the Law that the priests in the temple are not guilty when they desecrate the sabbath?
Montgomery New Testament
"Have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are guiltless?
NET Bible
Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?
New Heart English Bible
Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless?
Noyes New Testament
Or have ye not read in the Law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Sawyer New Testament
Or have you not read in the law, that the priests profane the sabbath in the temple, and are blameless?
The Emphasized Bible
Or have ye not read, in the law, that, on the sabbaths, the priests, in the temple, the sabbath, profane, and are, blameless?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are not culpable?
Twentieth Century New Testament
And have not you read in the law that, on the Sabbath, the priest in the Temple break the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?
Webster
Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Weymouth New Testament
And have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath without incurring guilt?
Williams New Testament
Or, did you never read in the law that the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and yet are not guilty?
World English Bible
Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?
Worrell New Testament
Or did ye not read in the law that, on the sabbath, the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?
Worsley New Testament
what profane sort of work the priests do in the temple on the sabbath-days, and yet are blameless?
Youngs Literal Translation
'Or did ye not read in the Law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple do profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Themes
false Accusation » Incidents illustrative of » Against jesus
Ecclesiasticism » Arrogance of
Pharisees » Traditions of, in regard to » The sabbath
The sabbath » Works connected with religious service lawful on
Topics
Interlinear
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Usage: 2128
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 12:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Plucking Grain On The Sabbath
4 How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests? 5 Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong? 6 But I say to you that a greater thing than the Temple is here.
Cross References
John 7:22-23
Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.
Numbers 28:9-10
And on the Sabbath day, two he-lambs of the first year, without any mark, and two tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering:
Nehemiah 13:17
Then I made protests to the chiefs of Judah, and said to them, What is this evil which you are doing, not keeping the Sabbath day holy?
Ezekiel 24:21
Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I will make my holy place unclean, the pride of your strength, the pleasure of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and daughters, who did not come with you here, will be put to the sword.