Matthew 12:12
Good News Translation
And a human being is worth much more than a sheep! So then, our Law does allow us to help someone on the Sabbath."

New Revised Standard Version
How much more valuable is a human being than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.”

Contemporary English Version
People are worth much more than sheep, and so it is right to do good on the Sabbath."

New American Bible
How much more valuable a person is than a sheep. So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
How much better is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do a good deed on the sabbath days.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Matthew 6:26 Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?

Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do they reap, neither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much are you more valuable than they?

it is.

Mark 3:4 And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy? But they held their peace.

Luke 6:9 Then Jesus said to them: I ask you, if it be lawful on the sabbath days to do good or to do evil? To save life or to destroy?

Context
Jesus Heals on the Sabbath
11But he said to them: What man shall there be among you, that hath one sheep: and if the same fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not take hold on it and lift it up? 12How much better is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do a good deed on the sabbath days. 13Then he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand; and he stretched it forth, and it was restored to health even as the other.…
Cross References
Matthew 10:31
Fear not therefore: better are you than many sparrows.

Luke 14:1
And it came to pass, when Jesus went into the house of one of the Pharisees, on the sabbath day, that they watched him.

Matthew 12:11
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