But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is against the Law of Moses to do on a Sabbath day.”
Matthew 12:3 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) Jesus replied, “Have you not read what King David did when he and his men were hungry? [I Sam. 21:6] More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He said to them, Have you not even read what David did when he was hungry, and those who accompanied him–[Lev. 24:9; I Sam. 21:1-6.] American Standard Version (1901) But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him; Common English Bible But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and those with him were hungry? Catholic Public Domain Version But he said to them: "Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him: |
But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is against the Law of Moses to do on a Sabbath day.”
He entered the house of God [i.e., the Temple] and ate the ‘Bread of Presence’, which was not permissible, according to the Law of Moses, for him or those with him to do, since it was reserved only for the priests.
Or, have you not read in the Law of Moses that the priests in the Temple defiled the Sabbath day [i.e., by doing the ‘work’ of offering sacrifices] and were not held guilty [of wrongdoing]? [See Num. 28:9-10]
And He answered them, “Have you not read [Gen. 1:27; 5:2] that when God created [mankind as] male and female,
They said to Jesus, “Do you hear what these [children] are saying [about you]?” Jesus answered them, “Yes, [I do]. Have you not read [in Psa. 8:2] ‘You have ordained that praise would come from the mouths of infants and small children?’”
But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God spoke to you, saying, [Ex. 3:6]
Have you never read this Scripture [Psa. 118:22- 23], ‘The building block rejected by the builders is the same [one] that was made the principal stone by which the entire building was aligned.
But concerning those who are raised from the dead, have you never read in the book of Moses, in the incident about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying [Ex. 3:6], ‘I am Abraham’s God, and Isaac’s God, and Jacob’s God?’
And Jesus said to him, “What is written in the Law of Moses? How do you read it?”
And Jesus answered them, “Have you never read about what King David did when he and his men were hungry [I Sam. 21:6];