Luke 6:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

How he went into the house of God, and took and ate the showbread, and also gave to those who were with him, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?

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  • Lev 24:5-9 : 5 And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes from it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake. 6 And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD. 7 And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 8 Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. 9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons', and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.

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    1At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the heads of grain and to eat.

    2But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, Look, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day.

    3But he said to them, Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

    4how he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

    5Or have you not read in the law, how on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

  • Mark 2:23-27
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    23And it happened that he went through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to pluck the heads of grain as they went.

    24And the Pharisees said to him, Look, why do they do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?

    25And he said to them, Have you never read what David did, when he needed and was hungry, he and those with him?

    26How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and also gave to those who were with him?

    27And he said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

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    1And it happened on the second Sabbath after the first, that he went through the grain fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands.

    2And some of the Pharisees said to them, Why do you do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath days?

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    6So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there but the showbread, which was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day it was taken away.

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    1And it happened, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.

  • Luke 24:43
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    43And he took it and ate in their presence.

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    22And as they ate, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

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    5Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?

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    31Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

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    31In the meantime his disciples urged him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

    32But he said to them, I have food to eat of which you do not know.

    33Therefore the disciples said to one another, Has anyone brought him anything to eat?

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    36Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

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