Mark 2:25 (BSB)
Jesus replied, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?
Commentary on Mark 2:25
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 2:18-28: 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. Why do the Pharisees and the disciples of John fast?
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 2:25: How he went into the house of God,.... The tabernacle; for the temple was not yet built: thither David went to get bread for himself and his men, being hungry: so in a spiritual sense, where should such go, who are hungering and thirsting after righteousness, but into the house of God?
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Mark 2:25: Verse 25. Have ye never read, etc. . (v) "what David did"