how he entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the sacred bread, which is against the law for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to his companions?"

He instructed them to take nothing for the journey except a staff -- no bread, no bag, no money in their belts --

But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." And they said, "Should we go and buy bread for two hundred silver coins and give it to them to eat?"

Now there were five thousand men who ate the bread.

And they saw that some of Jesus' disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.

He said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and to throw it to the dogs."

His disciples answered him, "Where can someone get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy these people?"

Now they had forgotten to take bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat.

So they began to discuss with one another about having no bread.

When he learned of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you arguing about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?

Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

Now on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus' disciples said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?"

While they were eating, he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to them, and said, "Take it. This is my body."