But he said unto them,
Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him;
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Thus, whereas in pleading for His disciples, He brings forward David; for Himself, it is the Father. John 5:17
And observe His reproving manner: Have ye not read what David did? For great indeed was that prophet's glory, so that Peter also afterwards pleading with the Jews, spoke on this wise, Let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried. Acts 2:29
But wherefore does He not call him by the name of his rank, either on this occasion or afterwards? Perhaps because He derived His race from him.
Now had they been a candid sort of persons, He would have turned His discourse to the disciples' suffering from hunger; but abominable as they were and inhuman, He rather rehearses unto them a history.
