Matthew 12:4

New American Bible - revised edition

how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat?

Cross References

Exodus 25:30

On the table you shall always keep showbread set before me. The Menorah.

Leviticus 8:31

Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of the ordination offering, in keeping with the command I have received: ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat of it.’

Matthew 12:3

He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry,

Matthew 12:5

Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath and are innocent?

Mark 2:26

How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the bread of offering that only the priests could lawfully eat, and shared it with his companions?”

Luke 6:4

[How] he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering, which only the priests could lawfully eat, ate of it, and shared it with his companions.”

Hebrews 9:2

For a tabernacle was constructed, the outer one, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of offering; this is called the Holy Place.

1 Samuel 21:4

Now what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves, or whatever you can find.”

1 Samuel 21:6

David answered the priest: “We have indeed stayed away from women. In the past whenever I went out on a campaign, all the young men were consecrated—even for an ordinary campaign. All the more so are they consecrated with their weapons today!”