Matthew 12:5

Young's Literal Translation 1862

`Or did ye not read in the Law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple do profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

Cross References

Nehemiah 13:17

And I strive with the freemen of Judah, and say to them, `What `is' this evil thing that ye are doing, and polluting the sabbath-day?

Ezekiel 24:21

Say to the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am polluting My sanctuary, The excellency of your strength, The desire of your eyes, and the pitied of your soul, And your sons and your daughters whom ye have left, by sword they do fall.

Leviticus 24:8

`On each sabbath-day he arrangeth it before Jehovah continually, from the sons of Israel -- a covenant age-during;

Matthew 12:4

how he went into the house of God, and the loaves of the presentation did eat, which it is not lawful to him to eat, nor to those with him, except to the priests alone?

Matthew 12:6

and I say to you, that a greater than the temple is here;