But he said unto them, (A)Have ye not read what David did when he was an hungered, and they that were with him?

How he went into the house of God, and did eat the [a]showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the (B)Priests?

Or have ye not read in the Law, how that on the Sabbath days the Priests in the Temple (C)[b]break the Sabbath, and are blameless?

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 12:4 The Hebrews call it bread of faces, because it stood before the Lord all the weeks upon the golden table appointed to that service, Lev. 24:6.
  2. Matthew 12:5 When the Priests do God’s service upon the Sabbath day, yet they break not the Law: much less doth the Lord of the Sabbath break the Sabbath.

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