King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 12:8
“‹For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.›”
Verse in context — Matthew 12
6
‹But I say unto you, That in this place is› [one] ‹greater than the temple.›
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‹But 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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‹For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.›
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And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
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And, behold, there was a man which had [his] hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
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