Matthew 12:6

New English Translation

I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:18

“God does not really live with humankind on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

Isaiah 66:1

This is what the Lord says: “The heavens are my throne and the earth is my footstool. Where then is the house you will build for me? Where is the place where I will rest?

Isaiah 66:2

My hand made them; that is how they came to be,” says the Lord. I show special favor to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say.

Malachi 3:1

“I am about to send my messenger, who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Matthew 12:5

Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

Colossians 2:9

For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form,