Luke 6:3 meaning and explanation

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

Luke 6:3, Berean Standard Bible

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Jesus is speaking to some Pharisees who have just accused his disciples of breaking the Sabbath by picking and rubbing grain to eat. He answers with a question and a story from 1 Samuel 21, where David, fleeing from Saul and hungry, entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread along with his men, bread that the law reserved for priests.

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