⁶ So the priest ^(A)gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the showbread ^(B)which had been taken from before the Lord, in order to put hot bread in its place on the day when it was taken away.

³ But Jesus answering them said, “Have you not even read this, ^(A)what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: ⁴ how he went into the house of God, took and ate the showbread, and also gave some to those with him, ^(B)which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat?”

³ But He said to them, “Have you not read ^(A)what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: ⁴ how he entered the house of God and ate ^(B)the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, ^(C)but only for the priests?

The Bread of the Tabernacle

⁵ “And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve ^(A)cakes with it. Two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake. ⁶ You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, ^(B)on the pure gold table before the Lord. ⁷ And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a ^(C)memorial, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ^8 (D)Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. ⁹ And ^(E)it shall be for Aaron and his sons, ^(F)and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, by a perpetual statute.”

²⁵ But He said to them, “Have you never read ^(A)what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those with him: ²⁶ how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the showbread, ^(B)which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and also gave some to those who were with him?”

²⁷ And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the ^(C)Sabbath.