Matthew 12:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ how he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ How he went into the house of God and ate the loaves of the showbread–which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for the men who accompanied him, but for the priests only?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ how he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them that were with him, but only for the priests?

Common English Bible

⁴ He went into God’s house and broke the law by eating the bread of the presence, which only the priests were allowed to eat.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that were with him, but for the priests only?

Matthew 12:4 Cross References

Exodus 25:30

3 Three cups as it were nuts to every branch, and a bowl withal, and a lily; and three cups, likewise of the fashion of nuts in the other branch, and a bowl withal, and a lily. Such shall be the work of the six branches, that are to come out from the shaft:

Leviticus 8:31

6 And Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord spoke by the hand of Moses.

Matthew 12:3

1 But he said to them: What man shall there be among you, that hath one sheep: and if the same fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not take hold on it and lift it up?

Matthew 12:5

3 Then he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand; and he stretched it forth, and it was restored to health even as the other.

Mark 2:26

And the Pharisees going out, immediately made a consultation with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

Luke 6:4

2 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God.

Hebrews 9:2

1 But Christ, being come an high priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, that is, not of this creation:

1 Samuel 21:4

And the priest said: Lo, here is the sword of Goliath the Philistine whom thou slewest in the valley of Terebinth, wrapped up in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take this, take it, for here is no other but this. And David said: There is none like that, give it me.

1 Samuel 21:6

1 And the servants of Achis, when they saw David, said to him: Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing to him in their dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?