Verse 3

He said to them, 'Have you not read what David did when he and those with him were hungry?

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  • 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.'
  • Luke 6:3 : 3 Jesus answered them, "Have you not even read what David did when he and those with him were hungry?
  • Mark 2:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to them, 'Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? 26 'He entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for anyone but the priests to eat. He also gave some to his companions.'
  • 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?'
  • 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'?
  • Matt 22:31 : 31 And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you:
  • Matt 12:5 : 5 Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath, the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent?
  • Matt 19:4 : 4 He answered, "Have you not read that the Creator, from the beginning, made them male and female?"
  • Mark 12:10 : 10 Have you not read this Scripture: 'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.'?
  • Luke 10:26 : 26 He asked him, 'What is written in the Law? How do you read it?'