Bible verse

Luke 6:3

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

Luke 6:3 · BSB

Luke 6:3 in context

The verses around it, from Luke 6.

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?”

3 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.”

6 On another Sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered.

7 Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, the scribes and Pharisees were watching Him closely to see if He would heal on the Sabbath.

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Luke 6:3 in other translations

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;

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;

ERV

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;

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