Matthew 12:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

Cross References

Exodus 23:12

“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest so that your ox and your donkey may have relief and your homeborn slave and the resident alien may be refreshed.

Exodus 35:2

“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy Sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

Isaiah 58:13

If you refrain from trampling the Sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day; if you call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, serving your own interests or pursuing your own affairs;

Matthew 12:10

a man was there with a withered hand, and they asked him, “Is it lawful to cure on the Sabbath?” so that they might accuse him.

Matthew 12:3

He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

Mark 2:24

The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”

Luke 14:3

And Jesus asked the experts in the law and Pharisees, “Is it lawful to cure people on the Sabbath or not?”

Luke 23:56

Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Luke 6:2

But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”