5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that the priests in the temple break the Sabbath day, and yet are blameless?
Matthew 12:5 Cross References - MSTC
Numbers 28:9-10
Nehemiah 13:17
17 Then reproved I the rulers in Judah, and said unto them, "What evil thing is this that ye do, and break the Sabbath day?
Ezekiel 24:21
21 'Tell the house of Israel, thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will suspend my sanctuary: even the glory of your power, that pleasure of your eyes, and the thing that ye love: your sons and daughters whom ye have left, shall fall through the sword.
John 7:22-23
22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision: not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers. And yet ye on the Sabbath day circumcise a man.
23 If a man on the Sabbath day receive circumcision without breaking of the law of Moses: Disdain ye at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the Sabbath day?