Luke 6:3
Jesus answered them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–
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- 1 Sam 21:3-6 : 3 Now what do you have at your disposal? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.” 4 The priest replied to David,“I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers have abstained from relations with women.” 5 David said to the priest,“Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!” 6 So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the LORD in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.
- Matt 21:16 : 16 and said to him,“Do you hear what they are saying?” Jesus said to them,“Yes. Have you never read,‘Out of the mouths of children and nursing infants you have prepared praise for yourself’?”
- Mark 2:25-26 : 25 He said to them,“Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry– 26 how he entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the sacred bread, which is against the law for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to his companions?”
- Mark 12:10 : 10 Have you not read this scripture:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
- Mark 12:26 : 26 Now as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him,‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
- Matt 21:42 : 42 Jesus said to them,“Have you never read in the scriptures:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
- Matt 22:31 : 31 Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,
- Matt 12:3-5 : 3 He said to them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry– 4 how he entered the house of God and they ate the sacred bread, which was against the law for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests? 5 Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?
- Matt 19:4 : 4 He answered,“Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,
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1 Lord of the Sabbath At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on a Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pick heads of wheat and eat them.
2 But when the Pharisees saw this they said to him,“Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath.”
3 He said to them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–
4 how he entered the house of God and they ate the sacred bread, which was against the law for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests?
5 Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?
- Mark 2:23-264 verses91%
23 Lord of the Sabbath Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.
24 So the Pharisees said to him,“Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”
25 He said to them,“Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry–
26 how he entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the sacred bread, which is against the law for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to his companions?”
- Luke 6:4-52 verses84%
4 how he entered the house of God, took and ate the sacred bread, which is not lawful for any to eat but the priests alone, and gave it to his companions?”
5 Then he said to them,“The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
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1 Lord of the Sabbath Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples picked some heads of wheat, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them.
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- Mark 6:35-384 verses74%
35 When it was already late, his disciples came to him and said,“This is an isolated place and it is already very late.
36 Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.”
37 But he answered them,“You give them something to eat.” And they said,“Should we go and buy bread for two hundred silver coins and give it to them to eat?”
38 He said to them,“How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” When they found out, they said,“Five– and two fish.”
- John 4:31-333 verses74%
31 Workers for the Harvest Meanwhile the disciples were urging him,“Rabbi, eat something.”
32 But he said to them,“I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
33 So the disciples began to say to one another,“No one brought him anything to eat, did they?”
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31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written,‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
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1 The Feeding of the Four Thousand In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them,
2 “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.
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4 His disciples answered him,“Where can someone get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy these people?”
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5 Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip,“Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?”
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13 But he said to them,“You give them something to eat.” They replied,“We have no more than five loaves and two fish– unless we go and buy food for all these people.”
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26 Jesus replied,“I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.
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35 Then all the people came and encouraged David to eat food while it was still day. But David took an oath saying,“God will punish me severely if I taste bread or anything whatsoever before the sun sets!”
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33 The disciples said to him,“Where can we get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?”
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7 So they began to discuss this among themselves, saying,“It is because we brought no bread.”
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16 So they began to discuss with one another about having no bread.
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31 He said to them,“Come with me privately to an isolated place and rest a while”(for many were coming and going, and there was no time to eat).
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3 So Jesus asked the experts in religious law and the Pharisees,“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”
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43 He said to them,“How then does David by the Spirit call him‘Lord,’ saying,
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6 So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the LORD in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.
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2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.
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20 Jesus and Beelzebul Now Jesus went home, and a crowd gathered so that they were not able to eat.
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12 Cursing of the Fig Tree Now the next day, as they went out from Bethany, he was hungry.
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4 But he answered,“It is written,‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
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35 The Messiah: David’s Son and Lord While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he said,“How is it that the experts in the law say that the Christ is David’s son?
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6 And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?’”
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16 But he replied,“They don’t need to go. You give them something to eat.”
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5 The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him,“Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”
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4 Jesus answered him,“It is written,‘Man does not live by bread alone.’”
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43 and he took it and ate it in front of them.
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9 Then Jesus said to them,“I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save a life or to destroy it?”
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5 So Jesus said to them,“Children, you don’t have any fish, do you?” They replied,“No.”