Mark 2:25 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁵ And He replied to them, “Did you never read what King David did when he and his men were hungry and needed something to eat? [See I Sam. 21:6].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ And He said to them, Have you never [even] read what David did when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were accompanying him?–

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ And he said unto them, Did ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry, he, and they that were with him?

Common English Bible

²⁵ He said to them, “Haven’t you ever read what David did when he was in need, when he and those with him were hungry?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ And he said to them: "Have you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, both he and those who were with him?

Mark 2:25 Cross References

Luke 10:26

And Jesus said to him, “What is written in the Law of Moses? How do you read it?”

Mark 12:26

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?’

Mark 12:20

[Now] there were [these] seven brothers; the first one got married, but when he died he left no children behind.

Matthew 22:31

But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God spoke to you, saying, [Ex. 3:6]

Matthew 21:42

Jesus [then] said to the leading priests and elders of the Jewish people, “Did you not ever read in the Scriptures [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. This was planned by the Lord and is a marvelous thing to us’?

Matthew 21:16

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?’”

Matthew 19:4

And He answered them, “Have you not read [Gen. 1:27; 5:2] that when God created [mankind as] male and female,

Matthew 4:2

After He had fasted forty days and nights, He was [very] hungry.

Mark 2:24

And the Pharisees asked Him, “Look, why are they [i.e., Jesus’ disciples] doing what is against the Law of Moses on the Sabbath day?”

Mark 2:26

Or how he entered the house of God [i.e., the Temple] when Abiathar was head priest, and ate the ‘Bread of Presence’ which was not permissible, according to the Law of Moses, for anyone but priests? He even gave [some of it] to those who were with him.”