Mark 2:26
How he went into the house of God, under Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which was not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave to them who were with him?
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
27And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.
Cross References
Exodus 29:32And Aaron and his sons shall eat it. The loaves also, that are in the basket, they shall eat in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony,
1 Samuel 21:1And David came to Nobe, to Achimelech, the priest and Achimelech was astonished at David's coming. And he said to him: Why art thou alone, and no man with thee? Nobe... A city in the tribe of Benjamin, to which the tabernacle of the Lord had been translated from Silo.
1 Samuel 23:6Now at that time, when Abiathar, the son of Achimelech, fled to David, to Ceila, he came down, having an ephod with him. An ephod... Or the ephod. That is, the vestment of the high priest, with the urim and thummim, by which the Lord gave his oracle.
2 Samuel 8:17And Sadoc the son of Achitob, and Achimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests: and Saraias was the scribe: Scribe... Or secretary.
2 Samuel 15:29So Sadoc and Abiathar carried back the ark of God into Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
2 Samuel 20:25And Siva was scribe: and Sadoc and Abiathar, priests.
Matthew Henry on Mark 2:19-28
The Hypocritical Rigour of the Pharisees. 18 And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? 19 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. 21 No… Read the whole commentary →