Matthew 12:12 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

How much better is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do a good deed on the sabbath days.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

How much better and of more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful and allowable to do good on the Sabbath days.

American Standard Version (1901)

How much then is a man of more value than a sheep! Wherefore it is lawful to do good on the sabbath day.

Common English Bible

How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So the Law allows a person to do what is good on the Sabbath.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

How much better is a man than a sheep? And so, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbaths."

English Standard Version 2016

Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

Matthew 12:12 Cross References

Matthew 10:31

Fear not therefore: better are you than many sparrows.

Matthew 6:26

Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?

Mark 3:4

And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy? But they held their peace.

Luke 12:24

Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do they reap, neither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much are you more valuable than they?

Luke 14:1

AND it came to pass, when Jesus went into the house of one of the chief of the Pharisees, on the sabbath day, to eat bread, that they watched him.

Luke 6:9

Then Jesus said to them: I ask you, if it be lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil; to save life, or to destroy?