He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:
Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.” And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.” And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?” So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.
And Jesus answered them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:
And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?”
Have you not read this Scripture: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;
and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”
And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God:
Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?
He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?”
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,
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