3He answered, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?


In Context

1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them.

2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath."

3 He answered, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread--which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.

5 Or haven't you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple desecrate the day and yet are innocent?

Matthew 12:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:3But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:3But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:3But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:3But he said to them, Have ye not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:3But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:3But he said to them, Have ye not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:3But he said to them, |Haven't you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:3And he said to them, 'Did ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, himself and those with him —

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:3But he said to them, Have you not read what David did, when he was an hungered, and they that were with him;