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Mark 2:25 KJV
Mark · chapter 2 · verse 25
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?Mark 2:25 · King James Version
Mark 2:25 in context
23And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
24And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
25And 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?
26How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
27And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
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Key words (Strong's)
- hungredpeinaōto hunger, be hungry, to suffer want, to be needy, metaph. to crave ardently, to seek…G3983 →
- neveroudepoteneverG3763 →
- Daviddabidsecond king of Israel, and ancestor of Jesus ChristG1138 →
- saidlegōto say, to speak, affirm over, maintain, to teach, to exhort, advise, to command, direct…G3004 →
- readanaginōskōto distinguish between, to recognise, to know accurately, to acknowledge, to readG314 →
- needchreianecessity, need, duty, businessG5532 →
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Christ had been put to justify himself in conversing with publicans and sinners: here he is put to justify his disciples; and in what they do according to his will he will justify them, and bear them out. I. He justifies them in their not fasting, which was turned to their reproach by the Pharisees.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 18-28