Matthew 12:8

THE MESSAGE

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.

Good News 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

¹One Sabbath, Jesus was strolling with his disciples through a field of ripe grain. Hungry, the disciples were pulling off the heads of grain and munching on them. Some Pharisees reported them to Jesus: "Your disciples are breaking the Sabbath rules!" ³Jesus said, "Really? Didn't you ever read what David and his companions did when they were hungry, how they entered the sanctuary and ate fresh bread off the altar, bread that no one but priests were allowed to eat? And didn't you ever read in God's Law that priests carrying out their Temple duties break Sabbath rules all the time and it's not held against them? ⁶"There is far more at stake here than religion. If you had any idea what this Scripture meant—‘I prefer a flexible heart to an inflexible ritual'—you wouldn't be nitpicking like this. The Son of Man is no lackey to the Sabbath; he's in charge." ⁹When Jesus left the field, he entered their meeting place. There was a man there with a crippled hand. They said to Jesus, "Is it legal to heal on the Sabbath?" They were baiting him. ¹¹He replied, "Is there a person here who, finding one of your lambs fallen into a ravine, wouldn't, even though it was a Sabbath, pull it out? Surely kindness to people is as legal as kindness to animals!" Then he said to the man, "Hold out your hand." He held it out and it was healed. The Pharisees walked out furious, sputtering about how they were going to ruin Jesus.

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 12:14
When Abram arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians took one look and saw that his wife was stunningly beautiful. Pharaoh's princes raved over her to Pharaoh. She was taken to live with Pharaoh.

Genesis 12:16
Because of her, Abram got along very well: he accumulated sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, men and women servants, and camels. But God hit Pharaoh hard because of Abram's wife Sarai; everybody in the palace got seriously sick.

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and worshiped God there, praying to the Eternal God. Abraham lived in Philistine country for a long time.

Joshua 7:2
Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai (The Ruin), which is near Beth Aven just east of Bethel. He instructed them, "Go up and spy out the land." The men went up and spied out Ai.

Joshua 8:3
Joshua and all his soldiers got ready to march on Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, tough, seasoned fighters, and sent them off at night with these orders: "Look sharp now. Lie in ambush behind the city. Get as close as you can. Stay alert. I and the troops with me will approach the city head-on. When they come out to meet us just as before, we'll turn and run. They'll come after us, leaving the city. As we are off and running, they'll say, ‘They're running away just like the first time.' That's your signal to spring from your ambush and take the city. God , your God, will hand it to you on a platter. Once you have the city, burn it down. God says it, you do it. Go to it. I've given you your orders."

Nehemiah 11:31
The Benjaminites from Geba lived in: Micmash Aijah Bethel and its suburbs Anathoth Nob and Ananiah Hazor Ramah and Gittaim Hadid, Zeboim, and Neballat Lod and Ono and the Valley of the Craftsmen. Also some of the Levitical groups of Judah were assigned to Benjamin.

Isaiah 10:28
You Who Legislate Evil Doom to you who legislate evil, who make laws that make victims— Laws that make misery for the poor, that rob my destitute people of dignity, Exploiting defenseless widows, taking advantage of homeless children. What will you have to say on Judgment Day, when Doomsday arrives out of the blue? Who will you get to help you? What good will your money do you? A sorry sight you'll be then, huddled with the prisoners, or just some corpses stacked in the street. Even after all this, God is still angry, his fist still raised, ready to hit them again. "Doom to Assyria, weapon of my anger. My wrath is a cudgel in his hands! I send him against a godless nation, against the people I'm angry with. I command him to strip them clean, rob them blind, and then push their faces in the mud and leave them. But Assyria has another agenda; he has something else in mind. He's out to destroy utterly, to stamp out as many nations as he can. Assyria says, ‘Aren't my commanders all kings? Can't they do whatever they like? Didn't I destroy Calno as well as Carchemish? Hamath as well as Arpad? Level Samaria as I did Damascus? I've eliminated kingdoms full of gods far more impressive than anything in Jerusalem and Samaria. So what's to keep me from destroying Jerusalem in the same way I destroyed Samaria and all her god-idols?'" When the Master has finished dealing with Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he'll say, "Now it's Assyria's turn. I'll punish the bragging arrogance of the king of Assyria, his high and mighty posturing, the way he goes around saying, "‘I've done all this by myself. I know more than anyone. I've wiped out the boundaries of whole countries. I've walked in and taken anything I wanted. I charged in like a bull and toppled their kings from their thrones. I reached out my hand and took all that they treasured as easily as a boy taking a bird's eggs from a nest. Like a farmer gathering eggs from the henhouse, I gathered the world in my basket, And no one so much as fluttered a wing or squawked or even chirped.'" Does an ax take over from the one who swings it? Does a saw act more important than the sawyer? As if a shovel did its shoveling by using a ditch digger! As if a hammer used the carpenter to pound nails! Therefore the Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, will send a debilitating disease on his robust Assyrian fighters. Under the canopy of God's bright glory a fierce fire will break out. Israel's Light will burst into a conflagration. The Holy will explode into a firestorm, And in one day burn to cinders every last Assyrian thornbush. God will destroy the splendid trees and lush gardens. The Assyrian body and soul will waste away to nothing like a disease-ridden invalid. A child could count what's left of the trees on the fingers of his two hands. And on that Day also, what's left of Israel, the ragtag survivors of Jacob, will no longer be fascinated by abusive, battering Assyria. They'll lean on God , The Holy—yes, truly. The ragtag remnant—what's left of Jacob—will come back to the Strong God. Your people Israel were once like the sand on the seashore, but only a scattered few will return. Destruction is ordered, brimming over with righteousness. For the Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, will finish here what he started all over the globe. Therefore the Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, says: "My dear, dear people who live in Zion, don't be terrorized by the Assyrians when they beat you with clubs and threaten you with rods like the Egyptians once did. In just a short time my anger against you will be spent and I'll turn my destroying anger on them. I, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, will go after them with a cat-o'-nine-tails and finish them off decisively—as Gideon downed Midian at the rock Oreb, as Moses turned the tables on Egypt. On that day, Assyria will be pulled off your back, and the yoke of slavery lifted from your neck." Assyria's on the move: up from Rimmon, on to Aiath, through Migron, with a bivouac at Micmash. They've crossed the pass, set camp at Geba for the night. Ramah trembles with fright. Gibeah of Saul has run off. Cry for help, daughter of Gallim! Listen to her, Laishah! Do something, Anathoth! Madmenah takes to the hills. The people of Gebim flee in panic. The enemy's soon at Nob—nearly there! In sight of the city he shakes his fist At the mount of dear daughter Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. But now watch this: The Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, swings his ax and lops the branches, Chops down the giant trees, lays flat the towering forest-on-the-march. His ax will make toothpicks of that forest, that Lebanon-like army reduced to kindling.

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.