Matthew 12:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But I tell you, Something greater and more exalted and more majestic than the temple is here!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ But I say unto you, that one greater than the temple is here.

Common English Bible

⁶ But I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ But I say to you, that something greater than the temple is here.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ But I tell you that there is here a greater than the temple.

Matthew 12:6 Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:18

“But will God indeed dwell with mortals on earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; so what kind of house could you build for me, what sort of place for me to rest?

Isaiah 66:2

All these things my hand has made, so all these things are mine, says the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look, to the humble and contrite in spirit who trembles at my word.

Malachi 3:1

See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 12:5

Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are guiltless?

Colossians 2:9

For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,