Parallel Verses
Moffatt New Testament
The Pharisees said to him, "Look at what they are doing on the sabbath! That is not allowed."
New American Standard Bible
The Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look,
King James Version
And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
Holman Bible
The Pharisees
International Standard Version
The Pharisees asked him, "Look! Why are they doing what is not lawful on Sabbath days?"
A Conservative Version
And the Pharisees said to him, Look, why are they doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath day?
American Standard Version
And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
Amplified
The Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why are they doing what
An Understandable Version
And the Pharisees asked Him, "Look, why are they [i.e., Jesus' disciples] doing what is against the law of Moses on the Sabbath day?"
Anderson New Testament
And the Pharisees said to him: See, why are they doing on the sabbath-day what is not lawful?
Bible in Basic English
And the Pharisees said to him, Why are they doing what it is not right to do on the Sabbath?
Common New Testament
And the Pharisees said to him, "Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?"
Daniel Mace New Testament
upon which the Pharisees said to him, pray observe how they trespass on the sabbath-day.
Darby Translation
And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath what is not lawful?
Godbey New Testament
And the Pharisees continued to say to Him, Behold what they are doing on the Sabbath, which is not lawful.
Goodspeed New Testament
And the Pharisees said to him, "Look! Why are they doing what it is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"
John Wesley New Testament
And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath that which is not lawful?
Julia Smith Translation
And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they in the sabbaths what is not lawful
King James 2000
And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the Pharisees began to say to him, "Behold, why are they doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath?"
Modern King James verseion
And the Pharisees said to Him, Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the sabbath day?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the Pharisees said unto him, "Behold, why do they on the Sabbath day that which is not lawful?"
Montgomery New Testament
"Look," said the Pharisees to him, "Why are they doing on the Sabbath Day what is against the law?"
NET Bible
So the Pharisees said to him, "Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?"
New Heart English Bible
And the Pharisees said to him, "Look, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"
Noyes New Testament
And the Pharisees said to him, See, why are they doing on the sabbath that which is not lawful?
Sawyer New Testament
And the Pharisees said to him, See what they do on the sabbath, which it is not lawful to do.
The Emphasized Bible
And, the Pharisees, were saying, - See! why are they doing, on the Sabbath, what is not allowed?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And the Pharisees said to him, See, why are they doing on the sabbath, what is not lawful?
Twentieth Century New Testament
"Look!" the Pharisees said to him, "why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?"
Webster
And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath that which is not lawful?
Weymouth New Testament
So the Pharisees said to Him, "Look! why are they doing what on the Sabbath is unlawful?"
Williams New Testament
So the Pharisees were saying to Him, "Just look! Why are they doing on the Sabbath what it is against the law to do?"
World English Bible
The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"
Worrell New Testament
And the Pharisees said to them, "Behold, why are they doing on the sabbath that which is not lawful?"
Worsley New Testament
And the pharisees said to Him, See, why do they what is not lawful to be done on the sabbath-day?
Youngs Literal Translation
and the Pharisees said to him, 'Lo, why do they on the sabbaths that which is not lawful?'
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Mark 2:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Plucking Grain On The Sabbath
23 Now it happened that he was passing through the cornfields on the sabbath, and as the disciples made their way through they began to pull the ears of corn. 24 The Pharisees said to him, "Look at what they are doing on the sabbath! That is not allowed." 25 He said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and his men?
Cross References
Matthew 7:3-5
Why do you note the splinter in your brother's eye and fail to see the plank in your own eye?
Matthew 12:2
When the Pharisees noticed it, they said to him, "Look at your disciples, they are doing what is not allowed on the sabbath."
Matthew 15:2-3
"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food."
Matthew 23:23-24
Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omit ting the former.
Mark 2:7
"What does the man mean by talking like this? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"
Mark 2:16
So when some scribes of the Pharisees saw he was eating with sinners and taxgatherers they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"
Hebrews 12:3
Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.