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Matthew 12:6

But I say to you, that something greater than the temple is here.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.

In Context

5Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbaths the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath, and they are without guilt?

7And if you knew what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would never have condemned the innocent.

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Cross References

Haggai 2:7For thus says the Lord of hosts: There is yet one brief time, and I will move heaven and earth, and the sea and the dry land.

Matthew 12:41The men of Nineveh shall arise in judgment with this generation, and they shall condemn it. For, at the preaching of Jonah, they repented. And behold, there is a greater than Jonah here.

John 2:19Jesus responded and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

Colossians 2:9For in him, all the fullness of the Divine Nature dwells bodily.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 12:2-14

Christ Vindicates His Disciples. 1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. 2 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. 3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; 4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the showbread, which was not lawful for him… Read the whole commentary →

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