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]

Cross References

Luke 6:3

And Jesus answered them, “Have you never read about what King David did when he and his men were hungry [I Sam. 21:6];

Mark 12:10

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.

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?’”

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?’

Matthew 22:31

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

Matthew 12:5

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]

Luke 10:26

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

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 12:2

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 12:4

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.