Luke 6:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² But some of the Pharisees asked them, Why are you doing what is not permitted to be done on the Sabbath days? [Exod. 20:10; 23:12; Deut. 5:14.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² But certain of the Pharisees said, Why do ye that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath day?

Common English Bible

² Some Pharisees said, “Why are you breaking the Sabbath law?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Then certain Pharisees said to them, "Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbaths?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And some of the Pharisees said to them: Why do you that which is not lawful on the sabbath days?

Luke 6:2 Cross References

Exodus 22:10

“If a man delivers to his neighbor an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is hurt or is driven away, without any one seeing it,

Exodus 31:15

Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall be put to death.

Exodus 35:2

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death;

Isaiah 58:13

“If you turn back your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;

Matthew 12:2

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.”

Matthew 15:2

“Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.”

Mark 2:24

And the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?”

Luke 5:33

And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.”

John 5:16

And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did this on the sabbath.