(3) Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
David wanted bread: he felt the force of hunger, and therefore scrupled not to take of what the priest would give him in his distress. Do I not see Jesus's hunger here pointed out, when he was led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil? But oh! how vast the superiority? Though that holy, harmless, undefiled High Priest, felt all the pressure of hunger; for he was in points tempted like as we are, sin only excepted, yet Jesus permitted not a miracle to supply his own wants, though he graciously wrought many to supply the wants of others.