25And 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?
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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. …
He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-28)Christ had been put to justify himself in conversing with publicans and sinners : here he is put to justify his disciples; and in what they do according to his will he will justify them, and bear them out. I. He justifies them in their not fasting , which was turned to their reproach by the Pharisees. Why do the Pharisees and the disciples of John fast? They used to fast , the Pharisees fasted twi…
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