Matthew 12:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

But he said to them, "Haven't you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

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  • 1 Sam 21:3-6 : 3 Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present. 4 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 David answered the priest, and said to 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 today shall their vessels be holy? 6 So the priest gave him holy [bread]; for there was no bread there but the show bread, that was taken from before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
  • Luke 6:3 : 3 Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven't you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;
  • Mark 2:25-26 : 25 He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry--he, and they who were with him? 26 How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"
  • Matt 21:16 : 16 and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?'"
  • Mark 12:26 : 26 But about the dead, that they are raised; haven't you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'
  • Matt 22:31 : 31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,
  • Matt 12:5 : 5 Or have you 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 He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
  • Mark 12:10 : 10 Haven't you even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner.
  • Luke 10:26 : 26 He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?"

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Luke 6:1-4
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    1 Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first, that he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands.

    2 But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?"

    3 Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven't you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;

    4 how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?"

  • Mark 2:23-27
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    23 It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.

    24 The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"

    25 He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry--he, and they who were with him?

    26 How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"

    27 He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

  • Matt 12:4-5
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    4 how he entered into the house of God, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

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

  • Matt 12:1-2
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    1 At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

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

  • John 4:31-33
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    31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

    32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."

    33 The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?"

  • 12 The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry.

  • Mark 8:1-2
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    1 In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to them,

    2 "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.

  • Matt 12:9-12
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    9 He departed there, and went into their synagogue.

    10 And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?" that they might accuse him.

    11 He said to them, "What man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won't he grab on to it, and lift it out?

    12 Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day."

  • Luke 9:12-13
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    12 The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place."

    13 But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people."

  • 1 It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him.

  • 43 He said to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

  • 33 The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"

  • 5 The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"

  • 4 He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent.

  • 11 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

  • 20 The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

  • 4 His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"

  • 16 They reasoned with one another, saying, "It's because we have no bread."

  • 2 "Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."

  • Mark 6:36-37
    2 verses
    70%

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

    37 But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii{200 denarii was about 7 or 8 months wages for an agricultural laborer.} worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"

  • 35 Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

  • 33 They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"

  • 35 All the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun be down.

  • 7 They reasoned among themselves, saying, "We brought no bread."

  • 3 Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"

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    11 How is it that you don't perceive that I didn't speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

    12 Then they understood that he didn't tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

  • 16 The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"

  • 43 He took them, and ate in front of them.

  • 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven{Greek and Hebrew use the same word for "heaven", "the heavens", "the sky", and "the air".} to eat.'"

  • 39 They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had made preparation for them.

  • 14 Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"

  • 2 Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.