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Who inquired of Jesus the reason for his disciples not fasting?
Matthew: “Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?” ([ix, 14].)
Luke: “And they [the scribes and Pharisees] said unto him, why do the disciples of John fast often, ... and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?” ([v, 33].)
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What did he say when reproved for plucking the ears of corn on the Sabbath?
“Have ye never read what David did?... How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar, the high priest, and did eat the shew bread?” ([Mark ii, 25, 26].)
David did not do this “in the days of Abiathar,” but in the days of Ahimelech. “Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest.... So the priest gave him hallowed bread; for there was no bread there but the shew bread” ([1 Sam. xxi, 1, 6]).