3And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;
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Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present. …
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? …
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; …
And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)These two passages of story we had both in Matthew and Mark, and they were there laid together ( Matt. 12:1 ; Mark 2:23 ; 3:1 ), because, though happening at some distance of time from each other, both were designed to rectify the mistakes of the scribes and Pharisees concerning the sabbath day, on the bodily rest of which they laid greater stress and required greater strictness than the Law-giver…
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