Mark 2:25

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He said to them,“Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry–

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  • 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’?”
  • 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 19:4 : 4 He answered,“Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,
  • 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,
  • Mark 12:20 : 20 There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.
  • 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’?
  • Luke 10:26 : 26 He said to him,“What is written in the law? How do you understand it?”

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    1Lord 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.

    2But when the Pharisees saw this they said to him,“Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath.”

    3He said to them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–

    4how 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?

    5Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

  • Luke 6:1-5
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    1Lord 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.

    2But some of the Pharisees said,“Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

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    4how 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?”

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    26how 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?”

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    23Lord 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.

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