Matthew 12:6
However, I tell you that someone is here who is greater than the Temple!
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In The King James Version
But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
In Context
Cross References
Haggai 2:7I will shake all the nations, and the one desired by all of the nations will come and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord Almighty.
Matthew 12:41The people of Nineveh will rise in the judgment together with this generation and they will condemn it because they repented in response to Jonah's message—and as you see, there's someone greater than Jonah here!
John 2:19Jesus replied, “Destroy this Temple, and in three days I'll raise it up!”
Colossians 2:9For the fullness of God's divine nature lives in Christ in bodily form,
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 →