Matthew 12:8 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁸ For the Son of man is lord [i.e., has authority] over the Sabbath day.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ For the Son of Man is Lord [even] of the Sabbath.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.

Common English Bible

⁸ The Human One is Lord of the Sabbath.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath."

Matthew 12:8 Cross References

Luke 6:5

Then He said to them, “The Son of man is lord [i.e., has authority over] the Sabbath day.”

Mark 2:28

So, the Son of man is lord [i.e., has authority] even over the Sabbath day.”

Matthew 9:6

But in order that you may know that the Son of man has authority to forgive people’s sins on earth, (then He said to the man afflicted with paralysis), ‘Get up, pick up your cot and go home.’”

Revelation 1:10

I was in [i.e., under the influence of] the Holy Spirit on the Lord’s day [i.e., Sunday], when I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet,

1 Corinthians 16:2

On every first day of the week [i.e., at the regular Sunday assembly] each one of you should set aside and store up [money] in proportion to your income, so that no collections will have to be taken when I come.

1 Corinthians 9:21

I [also] behaved like a person without [obligation to observe] the law [i.e., a Gentile] in front of those who are not obligated to it, although I was not [really] without obligation to God’s law; but was under [obligation to] Christ’s law. I did this to win those who are without [obligation to observe] the law [i.e., Gentiles].

Matthew 8:20

Jesus replied to him, “The foxes have dens [in which to live] and the birds of the sky have nests [in which to roost]; but the Son of man does not have anywhere to lay His head.”

Matthew 12:32

And whoever speaks an [abusive] word against the Son of man will be forgiven [of it], but whoever speaks [an abusive word] against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven [of it], not in this world nor the one to come.

Matthew 12:40

For just like Jonah was in the stomach of the huge fish for three days and nights, so the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth [i.e., the cave-tomb] for three days and nights.