Lk. contents himself with the essential fact: hunger, overruling a positive law concerning the shewbread. No reference to the high priest, as in Mk., and no additional instance of the Sabbath law superseded by higher interests, as in Mt. (Matthew 12:5). The controversy no longer lives for him, and his accounts are apt to be colourless and secondary.

Continues after advertising
Continues after advertising

Old Testament