Matthew 12:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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

¹² 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)

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² How much better is a man than a sheep? And so, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbaths."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² How much better is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do a good deed on the sabbath days.

Matthew 12:12 Cross References

Matthew 10:31

Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Mark 3:4

And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.

Luke 12:24

Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!

Luke 14:1

One sabbath when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him.

Luke 6:9

And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?”