But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
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Gill's Exposition
But he said unto them, have ye not read,.... If they had not read the Scriptures, they were very unfit persons either to be teachers, or censurers of others, and must have been very slothful and…
Barnes' Notes
But he said unto them ... - To vindicate his disciples, he referred them to a similar case, recorded in the Old Testament, and therefore one with which they ought to have been acquainted. This was the…
The Jewish teachers had corrupted many of the commandments, by interpreting them more loosely than they were intended; a mistake which Christ discovered and rectified (ch. 5) in his sermon on the…
Cambridge Bible
Ahimelech, the priest at Nob, gave David and his companions five loaves of the shewbread (1Sa 21:1-7).
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