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?
Matthew 12:5 in other translations
| BSB | Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent? |
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| WEB | Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| DARBY | Or have ye not read in the law that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless? |
| BBE | Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong? |
| Webster | Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless? |
What does Matthew 12:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Matthew 12:1-8
Being in the corn-fields, the disciples began to pluck the ears of corn: the law of God allowed it, De 23:25. This was slender provision for Christ and his disciples; but they were content with it. The Pharisees did not quarrel with them for taking another man's corn, but for doing it on the sabbath day. Christ came to free his followers, not only from the corruptions of the Pharisees, but from their unscriptural…
Matthew 12:5 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Matthew 12:5
- 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: This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
- 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. 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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Context
- Matthew 12:4
How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
- 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?
- Matthew 12:6
But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
Matthew 12:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | O ¿no habéis leído en la ley, que los sábados en el templo los sacerdotes profanan el sábado, y son sin culpa? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ou n’avez-vous pas lu dans la loi, que, le jour de sabbat, les sacrificateurs dans le temple profanent le sabbat et ne sont pas coupables? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Oder habt ihr nicht in dem Gesetz gelesen, daß an den Sabbathen die Priester in dem Tempel den Sabbath entheiligen und schuldlos sind? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | aut non legistis in lege quia sabbatis sacerdotes in templo sabbatum violant, et sine crimine sunt? |