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Mark 2:25
And he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did, when he had need and was without food, he, and those who were with him?
Mark 2:25 · Bible in Basic English
Mark 2:25 in other translations
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?
Jesus replied, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?
He said to them, “Did you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry—he, and those who were with him?
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In context
22 And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins: or the skins will be burst by the wine, and the wine and the skins will be wasted: but new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.
23 And it came about that on the Sabbath day he was going through the grain-fields; and while they were walking, his disciples took the heads of grain.
24 And the Pharisees said to him, Why are they doing what it is not right to do on the Sabbath?
25 And he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did, when he had need and was without food, he, and those who were with him?
26 How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?
27 And he said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;
28 So that the Son of man is lord even of the Sabbath.
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