Luke 6:3
New International Version
3 Jesus answered them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?(A)
1 Samuel 21:3-6
New International Version
3 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.”
4 But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread(A) on hand; however, there is some consecrated(B) bread here—provided the men have kept(C) themselves from women.”
5 David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual(D) whenever[a] I set out. The men’s bodies are holy(E) even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!” 6 So the priest gave him the consecrated bread,(F) since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the Lord and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 21:5 Or from us in the past few days since
Mark 2:25-26
New International Version
25 He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? 26 In the days of Abiathar the high priest,(A) he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat.(B) And he also gave some to his companions.”(C)
Matthew 12:3-5
New International Version
3 He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?(A) 4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.(B) 5 Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath(C) and yet are innocent?
Matthew 21:16
New International Version
16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.
“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,
Footnotes
- Matthew 21:16 Psalm 8:2 (see Septuagint)
Mark 12:10
New International Version
10 Haven’t you read this passage of Scripture:
“‘The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;(A)
Mark 12:26
New International Version
26 Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’[a]?(A)
Footnotes
- Mark 12:26 Exodus 3:6
Matthew 22:31
New International Version
31 But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you,
Matthew 19:4
New International Version
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a](A)
Footnotes
- Matthew 19:4 Gen. 1:27
Matthew 21:42
New International Version
42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:
Footnotes
- Matthew 21:42 Psalm 118:22,23
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