⁶ So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.^(A)

³ Jesus answered, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?^{(A) 4} How he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and gave some to his companions?”^(B)

³ He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?^{(A) 4} How he entered the house of God, and they^[a] ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests?^(B)

The Bread for the Tabernacle

⁵ “You shall take choice flour and bake twelve loaves of it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.^{(A) 6} You shall place them in two rows, six in a row, on the table of pure gold before the Lord.^{[a](B) 7} You shall put pure frankincense with each row, to be a token offering for the bread, as an offering by fire^[b] to the Lord. ⁸ Every Sabbath day Aaron shall set them in order before the Lord regularly as a commitment of the Israelites, as a covenant forever.^{(C) 9} They shall be for Aaron and his descendants, who shall eat them in a holy place, for they are most holy portions for him from the offerings by fire^[c] to the Lord, a perpetual due.”^(D)

²⁵ And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food, ²⁶ how he entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions?”^{(A) 27} Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for humankind and not humankind for the Sabbath,^(B)