Matthew 12:3
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 Samuel 21:3–5 Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.” The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.” David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”
- Luke 6:3 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 He said to them, “Did you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry—he, and those who were with him? How he entered into God’s house at the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?”