And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;
Ver. 3. Have ye not read] Yes, over and over, but either understood not, or, through malice, dissembled it. Quilibet nostrum de lege interrogatus facilius quam nomini suo respondet, saith Josephus. The Jews were all very well versed in the Scriptures.