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Matthew 12:5 KJV
Matthew · chapter 12 · verse 5
Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?Matthew 12:5 · King James Version
Matthew 12:5 in context
3But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
4How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
5Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
6But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
7But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
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Key words (Strong's)
- priestshiereusa priest, one who offers sacrifices and in general in busied with sacred rites, referring…G2409 →
- profanebebēloōto profane, desecrateG953 →
- templehierona sacred place, temple, used of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, used of the temple at…G2411 →
- readanaginōskōto distinguish between, to recognise, to know accurately, to acknowledge, to readG314 →
- dayssabbatonthe seventh day of each week which was a sacred festival on which the Israelites were…G4521 →
- lawnomosanything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command, of any law…G3551 →
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The Jewish teachers had corrupted many of the commandments, by interpreting them more loosely than they were intended; a mistake which Christ discovered and rectified (ch. 5) in his sermon on the mount: but concerning the fourth commandment, they had erred in the other extreme, and interpreted it too strictly.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13