Matthew 12:6

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:18

“Is God indeed to dwell with human beings on earth? If the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain you, how much less this house which I have built!

Malachi 3:1

Now I am sending my messenger— he will prepare the way before me; And the lord whom you seek will come suddenly to his temple; The messenger of the covenant whom you desire— see, he is coming! says the Lord of hosts.

Colossians 2:9

For in him dwells the whole fullness of the deity bodily,

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord: The heavens are my throne, the earth, my footstool. What house can you build for me? Where is the place of my rest?

Isaiah 66:2

My hand made all these things when all of them came to be—oracle of the Lord. This is the one whom I approve: the afflicted one, crushed in spirit, who trembles at my word.

Matthew 12:5

Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath and are innocent?