Luke 6:3
1 One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them.
2 But some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”
Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
4 He entered the house of God, took the consecrated bread and gave it to his companions, and ate what is lawful only for the priests to eat.”
5 Then Jesus declared, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
- KJV
- And 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;
- WEB
- Jesus, answering them, said, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him,
- ASV
- And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read even this, what David did, when he was hungry, he, and they that were with him;
- DARBY
- And Jesus answering said to them, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did when he hungered, he and those who were with him,
- BLB
- And answering, Jesus said to them, “Did you⁺ not even read this, what David did when he was hungry—he and those being with him:
- ÅB
- Og Jesus svarte og sa til dem: Har dere da ikke lest hva David gjorde da han var sulten, han selv og de som var med ham,
- OTB
- Jesus svarte dem: "Har dere aldri lest hva David gjorde da han og hans følgesvenner var sultne?
- B1930
- Og Jesus svarte og sa til dem: Har I da ikke lest hvad David gjorde da han var sulten, han selv og de som var med ham,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Samuel 21:3–6
Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”
Read in contextMark 2:25–26
Jesus replied, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?
Read in contextMatthew 12:3–5
Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
Read in contextMatthew 21:16
“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked. “Yes,” Jesus answered. “Have you never read: ‘From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise’?”
Read in contextMark 12:26
But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
Read in contextMark 12:10
Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
Read in contextMatthew 22:31
But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you:
Read in contextMatthew 19:4
Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
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