Matthew 12:8
For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
KJV
κύριος γάρ ἐστιν τοῦ σαββάτου ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου.
Greek NT
dominus enim est Filius hominis etiam sabbati.
Vulgate
For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.
ASV
For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
σάββατον
sabbaton
noun · 68×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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1. The Power of Harmony in Relation to Prayer. Again I say unto you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them. Matthew 18:19 The word symphony is strictly applied to the harmonies of sounds in music. And there are indeed among musical sounds some accordant and others discordant. But the Evangelic Scripture is fam…
He therefore was Himself the Word of God made the Son of man, receiving from the Father the power over all things, inasmuch as He was Man as well as God, in order that as by man death entered into the world, so also by man might the resurrection from the dead be proclaimed. See 1 Cor. xv. 21. And therefore the Lord declared that the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath. See Matt. …
Cross-references
- John 5:17 — But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
- Luke 6:5 — And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
- Mark 2:28 — Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
- Mark 2:28 — Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
- Mark 9:4 — And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.
- Matt 8:20 — And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
- Matt 9:6 — But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
- Matt 16:13 — When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
- Rev 1:10 — I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,