The Levitical law said that no one could eat of the showbread except the priest. Yet in this chapter, the high priest gives it to David since he and his men are ceremonially clean. Some scholars see this as an example of a lack of obedience on the part of the priest; others see it as them trying to fulfill the greater law of loving your neighbor. When Jesus references it in the gospels, it seems that it is the second interpretation that Jesus believes. Both might be true, but ultimately, I have to believe the greater truth is the second because if Jesus says this is an act of compassion, it is.
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