Matthew 12:6

Holman Christian Standard Bible

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

Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:18

But will God indeed live on earth with man? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

Isaiah 66:1

This is what the Lord says: Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What house could you possibly build for Me? And what place could be My home?

Isaiah 66:2

My hand made all these things, and so they all came into being. This is the Lord’s declaration. I will look favorably on this kind of person: one who is humble, submissive in spirit, and trembles at My word.

Malachi 3:1

“See, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. Then the Lord you seek will suddenly come to His temple, the Messenger of the covenant you desire — see, He is coming,” says the Lord of Hosts.

Matthew 12:5

Or haven’t you read in the Law that on Sabbath days the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and are innocent?

Colossians 2:9

For the entire fullness of God’s nature dwells bodily in Christ,