Matthew 12:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And he said to them, `Did ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, himself and those with him --

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  • 1 Sam 21:3-6 : 3 and now, what is there under thy hand? five loaves give into my hand, or that which is found.' 4 And the priest answereth David, and saith, `There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if the youths have been kept only from women.' 5 And David answereth the priest, and saith to him, `Surely, if women have been restrained from us as heretofore in my going out, then the vessels of the young men are holy, and it `is' a common way: and also, surely to-day it is sanctified in the vessel.' 6 And the priest giveth to him the holy thing, for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence which is turned aside from the presence of Jehovah to put hot bread in the day of its being taken away.
  • Luke 6:3 : 3 And Jesus answering said unto them, `Did ye not read even this that David did, when he hungered, himself and those who are with him,
  • Mark 2:25-26 : 25 And he said to them, `Did ye never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him? 26 how he went into the house of God, (at `Abiathar the chief priest,') and the loaves of the presentation did eat, which it is not lawful to eat, except to the priests, and he gave also to those who were with him?'
  • Matt 21:16 : 16 and they said to him, `Hearest thou what these say?' And Jesus saith to them, `Yes, did ye never read, that, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou didst prepare praise?'
  • Mark 12:26 : 26 `And concerning the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the Book of Moses (at The Bush), how God spake to him, saying, I `am' the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;
  • Matt 22:31 : 31 `And concerning the rising again of the dead, did ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,
  • Matt 12:5 : 5 `Or did ye not read in the Law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple do profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
  • Matt 19:4 : 4 And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made `them', from the beginning a male and a female made them,
  • Mark 12:10 : 10 And this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a corner:
  • Luke 10:26 : 26 And he said unto him, `In the law what hath been written? how dost thou read?'

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    2and certain of the Pharisees said to them, `Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbaths?'

    3And Jesus answering said unto them, `Did ye not read even this that David did, when he hungered, himself and those who are with him,

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  • Mark 2:23-27
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    23And it came to pass -- he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields -- and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,

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    25And he said to them, `Did ye never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him?

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