Matthew 12:1–2
Where nothing great or noble is happening, they keep quiet; but where they see some being saved, they are more burdensome than anyone. So they are enemies of human salvation and ignorant of the sacred writings. For if the new covenant proclaimed through Jeremiah is other than the first, one must certainly use not the old laws but the new.
But the Pharisees, unwilling to see this, lie in wait for the holy apostles and say about them to Christ: “Look, we see those you train opposing the legal commands. The law orders rest on the Sabbath and touching no labor at all, yet the disciples rub ears of grain with their hands.” But tell me yourself, Pharisee: when you set your own Sabbath table, do you not break the bread? Why then blame others? And how does the Savior defend them?
Greek
Ἵνα μή τις πενίαν προβάλληται, εἶπε τοῦτο θέλων δοῦναι μισθὸν τοῖς ὑποδεχομένοις.
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Catena fragments on Matthew (CPG 5206). Contents follow Matthew chapter and verse. Edition fragment numbers stay in About this text and under each passage.
English follows the named copy-text (Aegean/khazarzar Migne PG 72 extract). Other prints were checked as noted; no silent merge of recensions.
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- Copy-text Migne PG 72 Commentarii in Matthaeum (Aegean Digital Patrologia / khazarzar) (Greek · CPG 5206 catena fragments (290 parsed heads))
- Checked print matia.gr mirror of same Aegean extract (Greek · Byte-identical PDF; integrity check only)
- Checked print Internet Archive PG 72 volume OCR (bim … 1859_72) (Greek (OCR damaged) · Locus confirmation only; not used as reading text)
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