“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
“Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”
And place the Bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.
You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come to
So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had be
by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth m