Matthew 12:12

New American Standard Bible 2020

How much more valuable then is a person than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

Cross References

Matthew 10:31

So do not fear; you are more valuable than a great number of sparrows.

Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather crops into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more important than they?

Mark 3:4

And He *said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do harm, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent.

Luke 12:24

Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!

Luke 14:1

It happened that when He went into the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching Him closely.

Luke 6:9

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