Matthew 12:6

New American Standard Bible 2020

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

Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:18

“But will God really dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built!

Isaiah 66:1

This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is My throne and the earth is the footstool for My feet. Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest?

Isaiah 66:2

“For My hand made all these things, So all these things came into being,” declares the Lord. “But I will look to this one, At one who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at My word.

Malachi 3:1

“Behold, I am sending My messenger, and he will clear a way before Me. And the Lord, whom you are seeking, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,” says the Lord of armies.

Matthew 12:5

Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath, and yet are innocent?

Colossians 2:9

For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,