Matthew 12:5
Matthew 12:3-5 The Message (MSG)
Jesus said, “Really? Didn’t you ever read what David and his companions did when they were hungry, how they entered the sanctuary and ate fresh bread off the altar, bread that no one but priests were allowed to eat? And didn’t you ever read in God’s Law that priests carrying out their Temple duties break Sabbath rules all the time and it’s not held against them?
Matthew 12:5 King James Version (KJV)
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 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent?
Matthew 12:5 New Century Version (NCV)
And have you not read in the law of Moses that on every Sabbath day the priests in the Temple break this law about the Sabbath day? But the priests are not wrong for doing that.
Matthew 12:5 American Standard Version (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?
Matthew 12:5 New International Version (NIV)
Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?
Matthew 12:5 New King James Version (NKJV)
Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?
Matthew 12:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
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? [Num 28:9, 10]
Matthew 12:5 New Living Translation (NLT)
And haven’t you read in the law of Moses that the priests on duty in the Temple may work on the Sabbath?