John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 12:4
4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests? Ver. 4. And did eat the shewbread ] The bread of proposition, a as the Greek text hath it; the face bread, as the Septuagint call it; or that which was daily set before the Lord, to remind him, as it were, of the twelve tribes by those twelve loaves; and to teach us to labour every day in the week (and not on the Sabbath only)... read more
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 12:3
3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; Ver. 3. But he said unto them ] They had not proved a breach of the Sabbath, neither could they. A breach it had been, had not the disciples been hungry, and he denies it not, but confutes their present cavils by clear syllogisms, one in the neck of another, such as they could not answer, nor abide, a and therefore sought to destroy him,Matthew 12:14; Matthew 12:14 . See here the... read more