Matthew 12:8

New American Standard Bible (1995)

"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.

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

¹ At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat. ² But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, "Look, Your disciples do what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath." ³ But He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions, ⁴ how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone? ⁵ "Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent? ⁶ "But I say to you that something greater than the temple is here. ⁷ "But if you had known what this means, 'I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT A SACRIFICE,' you would not have condemned the innocent. ⁸ "For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."⁹ Departing from there, He went into their synagogue. ¹⁰ And a man was there whose hand was withered. And they questioned Jesus, asking, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"—so that they might accuse Him.

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
To Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

Genesis 12:12
and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife'; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

Genesis 12:14
It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Genesis 12:15
Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Genesis 12:16
Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.

Genesis 13:4
to the place of the altar which he had made there formerly; and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel; however, previously the name of the city had been Luz.

Genesis 35:3
and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone."

Joshua 7:2
Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, "Go up and spy out the land." So the men went up and spied out Ai.

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.