Luke 6:3
New International Version
Jesus answered them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

New Living Translation
Jesus replied, “Haven’t you read in the Scriptures what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

English Standard Version
And Jesus answered them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:

Berean Standard Bible
Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

Berean Literal Bible
And Jesus answering, said to them, "Not even have you read this, that which David did when he himself was hungry, and those who were with him:

King James Bible
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;

New King James Version
But Jesus answering them said, “Have you not even read this, what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:

New American Standard Bible
And Jesus, answering them, said, “Have you not even read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him,

NASB 1995
And Jesus answering them said, “Have you not even read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him,

NASB 1977
And Jesus answering them said, “Have you not even read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him,

Legacy Standard Bible
And Jesus answered and said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him,

Amplified Bible
Jesus replied to them, “Have you not even read [in the Scriptures] what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him—

Christian Standard Bible
Jesus answered them, “Haven’t you read what David and those who were with him did when he was hungry—

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Jesus answered them, “Haven’t you read what David and those who were with him did when he was hungry—

American Standard Version
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;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Yeshua answered and said to them, “Have you not read this thing that David did when he was hungry and those who were with him,”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus answered, "You surely have read what David did when he and his followers were hungry.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus answering them, said: Have you not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was hungry, and they that were with him:

English Revised Version
And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read even this, what David did, when he was an hungred, he, and they that were with him;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jesus answered them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his men were hungry?

Good News Translation
Jesus answered them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his men were hungry?

International Standard Version
Jesus answered them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions became hungry?

Literal Standard Version
And Jesus answering said to them, “Did you not read even this that David did when he hungered, himself and those who are with him,

Majority Standard Bible
Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

New American Bible
Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you not read what David did when he and those [who were] with him were hungry?

NET Bible
Jesus answered them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry--

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus answered, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

New Heart English Bible
Jesus, answering them, said, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;

Webster's Bible Translation
And Jesus answering them, said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was hungry, and they who were with him;

Weymouth New Testament
"Have you never read so much as this," answered Jesus--"what David did when he and his followers were hungry;

World English Bible
Jesus, answering them, said, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him,

Young's Literal Translation
And Jesus answering said unto them, 'Did ye not read even this that David did, when he hungered, himself and those who are with him,

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Context
The Lord of the Sabbath
2But some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” 3 Jesus replied, Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4He 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.”…

Cross References
1 Samuel 21:6
So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.

Matthew 4:2
After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.


Treasury of Scripture

And Jesus answering them said, Have you not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungered, and they which were with him;

Have.

Matthew 12:3,5
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; …

Matthew 19:4
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

Matthew 21:16,42
And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise? …

what.

1 Samuel 21:3-6
Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present…

Matthew 12:3,4
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; …

Mark 2:25,26
And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him? …

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1. Jesus reproves the Pharisees;
12. chooses apostles;
17. heals the diseased;
20. preaches to his disciples before the people: the beattitudes;
27. Love your Enemy
37. Do not Judge
43. A Tree and Its Fruit
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Verses 3, 4. - 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; how he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone? Their own loved David, said the new Teacher to his jealous accusers, scrupled not, when he "was an hungred," to set at nought the twofold ordinance of sacrilege and of sabbath-breaking. (The reference is to 1 Samuel 21:5. David's visit to the sanctuary at Nob took place evidently on the sabbath, as the fresh supply of shewbread had been apparently just laid out; he must, too, have violated another rule by his journey on that day. See Stier, 'Words of the Lord Jesus,' on Matthew 12:3, 4.) The lesson which Jesus intended to draw from the example of the great hero-king and the high priest was that no ceremonial law was to override. the general principle of providing for the necessities of the body. St. Matthew adds here a very forcible saying of the Lord's spoken on this occasion, which goes to the root of the whole matter, "But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless." These laws, as God originally gave them, were never intended to be a burden, rather they were meant to be a blessing for man. After ver. 5, Codex I) - a very ancient authority, written in the fifth century, now in the University Library at Cambridge, but one which contains many passages not found in any other trustworthy manuscript or version - adds the following strange narrative: "The same day, Jesus seeing a man who was working on the sabbath, saith to him, O man, if thou knowest what thou art doing, blessed art thou; but if thou knowest not, thou art accursed, and a transgressor of the Law." As no other ancient authority of weight contains this remarkable addition to the recital of our Lord's teaching respecting the observance of the sabbath, it must be pronounced an interpolation. It belongs most likely to the very early days of the Christian story, and was probably founded on some tradition current in the primitive Church. The framework of the anecdote in its present form, too, shows a state of things simply impossible at this time. Any Jew who, in the days of Jesus Christ's earthly ministry, openly, like the man of the story, broke the sabbath in the daring way related, would have been liable to be arrested and condemned to death by stoning.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Jesus
Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

replied,
ἀποκριθεὶς (apokritheis)
Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 611: From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak.

“Have you not read
ἀνέγνωτε (anegnōte)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 314: To read, know again, know certainly, recognize, discern. From ana and ginosko; to know again, i.e. to read.

what
(ho)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

David
Δαυὶδ (Dauid)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1138: David, King of Israel. Of Hebrew origin; Dabid, the Israelite king.

did
ἐποίησεν (epoiēsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do.

when
ὁπότε (hopote)
Conjunction
Strong's 3753: When, at which time. From hos and te; at which too, i.e. When.

he
αὐτὸς (autos)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

his companions
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

were hungry?
ἐπείνασεν (epeinasen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3983: To be hungry, needy, desire earnestly. From the same as penes; to famish; figuratively, to crave.


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