Matthew 12:3 He answered, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
He answered, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

English Standard Version
He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:

New American Standard Bible
But He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions,

King James Bible
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He said to them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry--

International Standard Version
But he told them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

American Standard Version
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him:

Darby Bible Translation
But he said to them, Have ye not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him?

Young's Literal Translation
And he said to them, 'Did ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, himself and those with him --

Cross References

1 Samuel 21:6
So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the show bread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

Matthew 12:2
But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, Behold, your disciples do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath day.

Matthew 12:4
How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

12:1-8 Being in the corn-fields, the disciples began to pluck the ears of corn: the law of God allowed it, De 23:25. This was slender provision for Christ and his disciples; but they were content with it. The Pharisees did not quarrel with them for taking another man's corn, but for doing it on the sabbath day. Christ came to free his followers, not only from the corruptions of the Pharisees, but from their unscriptural rules, and justified what they did. The greatest shall not have their lusts indulged, but the meanest shall have their wants considered. Those labours are lawful on the sabbath day which are necessary, and sabbath rest is to froward, not to hinder sabbath worship. Needful provision for health and food is to be made; but when servants are kept at home, and families become a scene of hurry and confusion on the Lord's day, to furnish a feast for visitors, or for indulgence, the case is very different. Such things as these, and many others common among professors, are to be blamed. The resting on the sabbath was ordained for man's good, De 5:14. No law must be understood so as to contradict its own end. And as Christ is the Lord of the sabbath, it is fit the day and the work of it should be dedicated to him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. But he said unto them, Have ye not read—or, as Mark (Mr 2:25) has it, "Have ye never read."

what David did when he was an hungered, and they that were with him—(1Sa 21:1-6)