House of God. This referred to the tabernacle, as the temple had not yet been built.

In the law. This refers to the law of…

The priests in the temple profane the sabbath—The work of the priests, as described for example in Numbers 28:9, involved sacrific…

This instance is absolutely to the point. The priests worked hard on the Sabbath in offering sacrifice and in other appointed ways, but they were t…

Glossa Ordinaria: After relating the preaching along with the miracles of one year before John's inquiry, He moves on to those…

Jesus’ second appeal is from Nu 28:9–10. Formally speaking the Levitical priests “desecrate” the Sabbath every week, since the right worship of God…

That on the Sabbaths the priests profane the Sabbath. This is the second argument by which Christ proves that the violation of th…

Or have you not read in the law (Numbers 28:9) by which law the priests were obliged, every sabbath day, to o…

Being in the corn-fields, the disciples began to pluck the ears of corn; the law of God allowed it (Deuteronomy 23:25). This was slende…