KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Matthew 12:12–15
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Matthew 12:12
12How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
12How much then is a man better then a shepe? Wherfore it is lawfull to doe well on the Sabbath dayes.
Matthew 12:13
13Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.
13Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand: and hee stretched it forth, and it was restored whole, like as the other.
Matthew 12:14
14¶ Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
14¶ Then the Pharises went out, and ‖held a counsell against him, how they might destroy him.
- Or, tooke counsell.
Matthew 12:15
15But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;
15But when Iesus knew it, hee withdrew himselfe from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all,
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DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 12:12
A great quantity or degree; abundant in amount.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
More excellent, more fitting, or to a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Why; for what reason.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Agreeable to law; conformable to law; allowed by law; legal; legitimate.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
In a good, right, or healthy manner or condition; also a deep source of water, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 12:13
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To draw out to greater length; to extend in a line.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Outward, onward, or away from a place.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Drawn out in length; extended; exerted to the utmost.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Returned; brought back; retrieved 5 recovered; cured; renewed; re-established.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Entire, complete, or undivided; also sound or restored to health, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
A different or additional person or thing; the remaining one of two or more.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 12:14
Members of a Jewish sect known for strict observance of its religious traditions.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Kept, possessed, maintained, restrained, or regarded, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Power or strength; also an auxiliary expressing possibility or permission.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To ruin, demolish, kill, consume, or bring to an end.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Matthew 12:15
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Perceived, understood, recognized, or was acquainted with.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To draw back, remove, recall, or depart.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
Restored to a sound state.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 12
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Open the full verse study26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
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Open the full verse study9Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
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Open the full verse study4And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
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Open the full verse study31Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
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Open the full verse study24Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
From verse 13
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Open the full verse study13And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
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Open the full verse study7And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength.
8And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
From verse 14
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Open the full verse study53Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.
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Open the full verse study39Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
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Open the full verse study18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
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Open the full verse study11And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
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Open the full verse study6And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
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Open the full verse study4And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
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Open the full verse study57Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
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Open the full verse study1WHEN the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
From verse 15
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Open the full verse study7But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judæa,
8And from Jerusalem, and from Idumæa, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.
9And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
10For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
11And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
12And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.
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Open the full verse study23But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
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Open the full verse study54Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
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Open the full verse study1AFTER these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
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Open the full verse study2And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.
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Open the full verse study40And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.
41And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.
42And many believed on him there.
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Open the full verse study56And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
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Open the full verse study23¶ And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
24And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
25And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judæa, and from beyond Jordan.
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Open the full verse study21For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
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Open the full verse study9And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
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Open the full verse study4I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
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Open the full verse study12And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
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Open the full verse study17¶ And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judæa and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
18And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.
19And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
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