Matthew 12:8

Good News Translation

for the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

King James Version (1611)
For the sonne of man is Lord euen of the Sabbath day.

King James Version
For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

English Standard Version
For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."

New American Standard Bible
"For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

New Century Version
"So the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath day."

Amplified Bible
"For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the sonne of man is Lord, euen of the Sabbath.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

Legacy Standard Bible
For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

Berean Standard Bible
For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

Contemporary English Version
So the Son of Man is Lord over the Sabbath.

Complete Jewish Bible
For the Son of Man is Lord of Shabbat!"

Darby Translation
For the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath.

Easy-to-Read Version
"The Son of Man is Lord over the Sabbath day."

George Lamsa Translation
For the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath.

Lexham English Bible
For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."

Literal Translation
For the Son of Man is also Lord of the sabbath.

American Standard Version
For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.

Bible in Basic English
For the Son of man is lord of the Sabbath.

Hebrew Names Version
For the Son of Man is Lord of the Shabbat."

International Standard Version
For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

Etheridge Translation
For the Lord of the sabbath is the Son of man.

Murdock Translation
For the Son of man, is lord of the sabbath.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the sonne of man also is Lorde euen of the Sabbath day.

English Revised Version
For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.

World English Bible
For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath.

Weymouth's New Testament
For the Son of Man is the Lord of the Sabbath."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For mannus Sone is lord, yhe, of the sabat.

Update Bible Version
For the Son of man is lord of the Sabbath.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath.

New English Translation
For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."

New King James Version
For the Son of Man is Lord even [fn] of the Sabbath."

New Living Translation
For the Son of Man is Lord, even over the Sabbath!"

New Life Bible
For the Son of Man is Lord of the Day of Rest."

New Revised Standard
For the Son of Man is lord of the sabbath."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, the Son of Man, is, Lord of the Sabbath.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath.

Revised Standard Version
For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For ye sonne of man is lord even of ye saboth daye.

Young's Literal Translation
for the son of man is lord even of the sabbath.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the sonne of man is LORDE euen ouer the Sabbath.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for the sabbath is subservient to men.

Simplified Cowboy Version
The Son of Man is Boss over the day of rest."

Contextual Overview

¹ Not long afterward Jesus was walking through some wheat fields on a Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, so they began to pick heads of wheat and eat the grain. ² When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Jesus, "Look, it is against our Law for your disciples to do this on the Sabbath!" ³ Jesus answered, "Have you never read what David did that time when he and his men were hungry? ⁴ He went into the house of God, and he and his men ate the bread offered to God, even though it was against the Law for them to eat it—only the priests were allowed to eat that bread. ⁵ Or have you not read in the Law of Moses that every Sabbath the priests in the Temple actually break the Sabbath law, yet they are not guilty? ⁶ I tell you that there is something here greater than the Temple. ⁷ The scripture says, ‘It is kindness that I want, not animal sacrifices.' If you really knew what this means, you would not condemn people who are not guilty; ⁸ for the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath." ⁹ Jesus left that place and went to a synagogue, ¹⁰ where there was a man who had a paralyzed hand. Some people were there who wanted to accuse Jesus of doing wrong, so they asked him, "Is it against our Law to heal on the Sabbath?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 9:6, Mark 2:28, Mark 9:4-7, Luke 6:5, John 5:17-23, 1 Corinthians 9:21, 1 Corinthians 16:2, Revelation 1:10

Reciprocal: Matthew 16:13 - I the

Cross-References

Genesis 4:26
Seth had a son whom he named Enosh. It was then that people began using the Lord 's holy name in worship.

Genesis 12:12
When the Egyptians see you, they will assume that you are my wife, and so they will kill me and let you live.

Genesis 12:14
When he crossed the border into Egypt, the Egyptians did see that his wife was beautiful.

Genesis 12:15
Some of the court officials saw her and told the king how beautiful she was; so she was taken to his palace.

Genesis 12:16
Because of her the king treated Abram well and gave him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, donkeys, slaves, and camels.

Genesis 13:4
and had built an altar. There he worshiped the Lord .

Genesis 21:33
Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and worshiped the Lord , the Everlasting God.

Genesis 28:19
He named the place Bethel. (The town there was once known as Luz.)

Genesis 35:3
We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I have gone."

Joshua 7:2
Joshua sent some men from Jericho to Ai, a city east of Bethel, near Bethaven, with orders to go and explore the land. When they had done so,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day. By "the Son of man" is meant, not any man, as some have thought; for no mere man is lord of any law, moral or ritual, natural or positive; or has a power of disposing of it, and dispensing with it at pleasure; but Christ himself; which is the constant sense of this phrase in the New Testament, and is a character of the Messiah in the old, Daniel 7:13 who, as he was the institutor of the sabbath among the Jews, that being a ritual, and of mere positive institution, could dispense with it, and even abrogate it at his pleasure. The Jews so far agree to this, that he that commanded the law of the sabbath, could dispense with it; they say z, that

"the day on which Jericho was taken was the sabbath day; and that though they slew and burnt on the sabbath day,

מי שצוה על השבת צוה לחלל שבת, "he that commanded the observation of the sabbath, commanded the profanation of it".''

And since Christ is greater than the temple, and has all the perfections of the divine nature in him, is equal to the Father in power and glory; and even as mediator, has all power in heaven and earth given him; so as he is Lord of all other things, he is of the sabbath, and has a power of dispensing with it, and even of abolishing it; see Colossians 2:16 and since the Lord of the sabbath had a power of dispensing with it, and made use of it in the cases of David and his men, and of the priests in the temple formerly; the Pharisees ought not to think it strange, that the Son of man, who is equally Lord of the sabbath, dispensed with it in his disciples now.

z R. David Kimchi in Josh. vi. 11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day - To crown all, Christ says that he was Lord of the Sabbath. He had a right to direct the manner of its observance - undoubted proof that he is divine.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 12:8. The Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath-day. — The change of the Jewish into the Christian Sabbath, called the Lord's day, Revelation 1:10, shows that Christ is not only the Lord, but also the truth and completion of it. For it seems to have been by an especial providence that this change has been made and acknowledged all over the Christian world.