Verse 25

Jesus said to them, 'Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?

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  • Matt 21:16 : 16 They said to him, 'Do you hear what these children are saying?' Jesus replied, 'Yes, have you never read: Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies, you have prepared praise?'
  • 1 Sam 21:3-6 : 3 David answered Ahimelech the priest, 'The king has given me an assignment and said to me, "Let no one know anything about the mission I am sending you on and what I have instructed you." I have also told my young men to meet me at a certain place. 4 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever you can find.' 5 The priest answered David, 'I don’t have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is consecrated bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.' 6 David replied to the priest, 'Indeed women have been kept away from us, as usual whenever I set out. The bodies of the young men are holy even on ordinary missions, and all the more today.'
  • Matt 19:4 : 4 He answered, "Have you not read that the Creator, from the beginning, made them male and female?"
  • Matt 21:42 : 42 Jesus said to them, 'Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This came from the Lord and is wonderful in our eyes?
  • Matt 22:31 : 31 And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you:
  • Mark 12:20 : 20 'Now there were seven brothers. The first married a woman and died, leaving no children.'
  • Mark 12:26 : 26 Regarding the dead being raised—have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?
  • Luke 10:26 : 26 He asked him, 'What is written in the Law? How do you read it?'