2But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, Behold, your disciples do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath day.


In Context

1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungered, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat.

2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, Behold, your disciples do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath day.

3 But he said to them, Have you not read what David did, when he was an hungered, and they that were with him;

4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

Matthew 12:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:2But when the Pharisees saw [it,] they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:2When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:2And the Pharisees seeing them, said to him: Behold thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:2But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do upon the sabbath.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:2But the Pharisees, seeing it, said to him, Behold, thy disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on sabbath.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:2But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do upon the sabbath.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:2But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, Behold, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:2But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, |Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:2and the Pharisees having seen, said to him, 'Lo, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do on a sabbath.'