Matthew 12:3

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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  • 1 Sam 21:3-6 : 3 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present. 4 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least 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, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel. 6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, 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 so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;
  • Mark 2:25-26 : 25 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him? 26 How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
  • Matt 21:16 : 16 And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
  • Mark 12:26 : 26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush 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, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
  • Matt 19:4 : 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
  • Mark 12:10 : 10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
  • Luke 10:26 : 26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

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