Matthew 12:6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:18

“But will God indeed reside with mortals on earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how 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; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is my resting place?

Isaiah 66:2

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things are mine, says the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look, to the humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at my word.

Malachi 3:1

See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 12:5

Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests in the temple break the sabbath and yet are guiltless?

Colossians 2:9

For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,