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


In Context

1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them.

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

3 He answered, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread--which was not lawful for them to do, 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 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.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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