Matthew Chapter 12 verse 5 Holy Bible
Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?
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Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong?
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Or have ye not read in the law that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
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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?
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Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?
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`Or did ye not read in the Law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple do profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Matthew only. Or. A second example, if the first does not convince you. Have ye not read in the Law. Beyond which there is no appeal. Jewish authors often appeal to Scripture in the order of Hagio-graphs, Prophets, and, last of all, Law. He here refers to Leviticus 24:8 (cf. also 1 Chronicles 9:32), but Bengel's suggestive remark that Leviticus was read in the services at that very time of year is vitiated by the double uncertainty, first, what time of year it really was; and secondly, what is the antiquity of the present custom of reading the whole Law every year (cf. Dr. Lumby on Acts 13, 'Add. Note'). According to the express orders of the Law, the priests put in fresh shewbread on the sabbath day. How that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple. The word of wider import is used (ἱερόν, not σκηνή), because the Law still holds good. Profane the sabbath. If their work is regarded in itself, as the action of my disciples is now regarded. And are blameless? (guiltless, Revised Version, as also the Authorized Version in ver. 7); i.e. in the eyes of the Law. This you will all grant (cf. Schurer, II. 2:103). Lightfoot's ('Her. Hebr.') attractive quotation from Maimonides in ' Pesachim,' 1. (i.e. 'Hilkoth Korban Pesach,' § 1.), "There is no sabbatism at all in the temple," appears to rest on a misunderstanding.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) The priests in the temple profane the sabbath.--The work of the priests, as described, e.g., in Numbers 28:9, viz., slaying victims, placing the shewbread, involved an amount of labour which, in work of any other kind, would have broken the Sabbath rest; yet no one blamed the priests, for they were serving in the Temple of Jehovah.
