Matthew 12:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?

Cross References

Exodus 25:30

And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread.

Leviticus 8:31

And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, The flesh is to be cooked in water at the door of the Tent of meeting, and there you are to take it as food, together with the bread in the basket, as I have given orders, saying, It is the food of Aaron and his sons.

Matthew 12:3

But he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did when he had need of food, and those who were with him?

Matthew 12:5

Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong?

Mark 2:26

How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

Luke 6:4

How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

Hebrews 9:2

For the first Tent was made ready, having in it the vessels for the lights and the table and the ordering of the bread; and this is named the holy place.

1 Samuel 21:4

And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.

1 Samuel 21:6

So the priest gave him the holy bread: there was no other, only the holy bread which had been taken from before the Lord, so that new bread might be put in its place on the day when it was taken away.