Matthew 12:3

American Standard Version (1901)

But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him;

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  • 1 Sam 21:3-6 : 3 Now therefore what is under thy hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatsoever there is present. 4 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women. 5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day shall their vessels be holy? 6 So the priest gave him holy [bread] ; for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before Jehovah, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
  • Luke 6:3 : 3 And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read even this, what David did, when he was hungry, he, and they that were with him;
  • Mark 2:25-26 : 25 And he said unto them, Did ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry, he, and they that were with him? 26 How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the showbread, which it is not lawful to eat save for the priests, and gave also to them that were with him?
  • Matt 21:16 : 16 and said unto him, Hearest thou what these are saying? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea: did ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou has perfected praise?
  • Mark 12:26 : 26 But as touching the dead, that they are raised; have ye not read in the book of Moses, in [the place concerning] the Bush, how God spake unto him, saying, I [am] the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
  • Matt 22:31 : 31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
  • Matt 12:5 : 5 Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?
  • Matt 19:4 : 4 And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made [them] from the beginning made them male and female,
  • Mark 12:10 : 10 Have ye not read even this scripture: The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;
  • Luke 10:26 : 26 And he said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

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    3And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read even this, what David did, when he was hungry, he, and they that were with him;

    4how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the showbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat save for the priests alone?

  • Mark 2:23-27
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    23And it came to pass, that he was going on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears.

    24And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?

    25And he said unto them, Did ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry, he, and they that were with him?

    26How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the showbread, which it is not lawful to eat save for the priests, and gave also to them that were with him?

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