Parallel Verses

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?

New American Standard Bible

Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent?

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

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

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

Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break [the sanctity of] the Sabbath and yet are innocent?

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?

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?

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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Or
ἤ 
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
Usage: 199

have ye
ἀναγινώσκω 
Anaginosko 
Usage: 20

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

ἀναγινώσκω 
Anaginosko 
Usage: 20

in
ἐν 
En 
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128
Usage: 2128

the law
νόμος 
Nomos 
law
Usage: 179

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

on the sabbath days
σάββατον 
Sabbaton 
Usage: 48

the priests
ἱερεύς 
Hiereus 
Usage: 22

the temple
ἱερόν 
Hieron 
Usage: 64

βεβηλόω 
Bebeloo 
Usage: 1

the sabbath
σάββατον 
Sabbaton 
Usage: 48

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

are
εἰσί 
Eisi 
are, be, were, have, not tr,
Usage: 97

References

Context Readings

Plucking Grain On The Sabbath

4 how he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? 5 Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are innocent? 6 I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.

Cross References

John 7:22-23

Moses therefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

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