Matthew 12:6

Modern English Version

I say to you, in this place there is One who is greater than the temple.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:18

“For will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the highest heavens are not able to 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. Where then is the house that you could build for Me? And where is the place of My rest?

Isaiah 66:2

For My hand made all those things, thus all those things have come to be, says the Lord. But to this man I will look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at My word.

Malachi 3:1

Behold, I send My messenger, and he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, even the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight. He is coming, says the Lord of Hosts.

Matthew 12:5

Or have you not read in the law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, but are blameless?

Colossians 2:9

For in Him lives all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.