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,

³ Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever is here.” ⁴ The priest answered David, “I have no ordinary bread at hand, only holy bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”^{(A) 5} David answered the priest, “Indeed, women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition; the vessels of the young men are holy even when it is a common journey; how much more today will their vessels be holy?”^{(B) 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.^(C)

²⁶ He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?”

²⁶ And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?^(A)

²⁰ There were seven brothers; the first married and, when he died, left no children,

³¹ And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God,

⁴² Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures:

¹⁶ and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,

⁴ He answered, “Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’^(A)