Matthew 12:2

Matthew chapter 12 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do upon the sabbath.

King James Version · 1611

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.

American Standard Version · 1901

But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do upon the sabbath.

v.1At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears and to eat.

v.2This passage

v.3But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him;

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Matthew 12:10
and behold, a man having a withered hand. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? that they might accuse him.
Luke 23:56
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. And on the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
Luke 13:10
And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath day.
Isaiah 58:13
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of Jehovah honorable; and shalt honor it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Exodus 31:15
Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Jehovah: whosoever doeth any work on the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 23:12
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.