12Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.|


In Context

9 He departed there, and went into their synagogue.

10 And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, |Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?| that they might accuse him.

11 He said to them, |What man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won't he grab on to it, and lift it out?

12 Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.|

13 Then he told the man, |Stretch out your hand.| He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.

14 But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

Matthew 12:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:12How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:12How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:12How much better is a man than a sheep? Therefore it it lawful to do a good deed on the sabbath days.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:12How much then is a man of more value than a sheep! Wherefore it is lawful to do good on the sabbath day.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:12How much better then is a man than a sheep! So that it is lawful to do well on the sabbath.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:12How much then is a man of more value than a sheep! Wherefore it is lawful to do good on the sabbath day.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:12How much then is a man better than a sheep? wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:12How much better, therefore, is a man than a sheep? — so that it is lawful on the sabbaths to do good.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:12How much then is a man better than a sheep? Why it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.