Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath

Matthew 12

1 At that time w Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and x they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, y "Look, your disciples are doing z what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath." 3 He said to them, a "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: 4 how he entered the house of God and ate b the bread of the Presence, which it 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 c in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? 6 I tell you, d something greater than the temple is here. 7 And if you had known e what this means, f 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For g the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."

  1. Cross References
    Matthew 12:1 - 8
    At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.
    Mark 2:23 - 28
    One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.
    Luke 6:1 - 5
    On a Sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands.
  2. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 23:25
    If you go into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.
  3. Cross References
    Matthew 12:1 - 8
    At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.
    Mark 2:23 - 28
    One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.
    Luke 6:1 - 5
    On a Sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands.
  4. Cross References
    Matthew 12:10
    And a man was there with a withered hand. And t...
    Luke 13:14
    But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant becau...
    Luke 14:3
    And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisee...
    John 5:10
    So the Jews said to the man who had been healed...
    John 7:23
    If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, ...
    John 9:16
    Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not fr...
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 20:9 - 11
    Six days you shall labor, and do all your work.
  6. Cross References
    1 Samuel 21:1 - 6
    Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David trembling and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?
    Matthew 21:16
    And they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, "'Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise'?
  7. Cross References
    Exodus 25:30
    And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.
    Leviticus 24:5 - 9
    You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.
  8. Cross References
    Numbers 28:9 - 10
    On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:
    1 Chronicles 9:32
    Also some of their kinsmen of the Kohathites had charge of the showbread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
    John 7:22 - 23
    Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
  9. Cross References
    Matthew 12:41 - 42
    The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
    Matthew 12:8
    For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.
    Haggai 2:9
    The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the Lord of hosts.'
    Malachi 3:1
    Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
  10. Cross References
    Matthew 9:13
    Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
  11. Cross References
    Hosea 6:6
    For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
    Micah 6:6 - 8
    With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
  12. Cross References
    Hosea 6:6
    For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
  13. Cross References
    Matthew 9:6
    But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" - he then said to the paralytic - "Rise, pick up your bed and go home.
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