Please click the link to read the reflection on today’s Gospel: Did Jesus misquote 1 Samuel 21, confusing Abiathar with his father Achimelech?
Achimelech gives David the sword of Goliath Tuesday in the Second Week of Ordinary Time, Mark 2:23-28 And [Jesus] said to them: Have you never read what David did when he had need, and was hungry himself, and they that were with him? How he went into the house of God, under Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which was not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave to them who were with him? St. Mark specifies Jesus’ question to the Pharisees in a way that St. Matthew (12:1-8) does not, for St. Mark mentions that our Lord declared Abiathar to be the high priest when David came and ate of the hallowed bread. However, if we look to the text cited (1 Samuel 21:1-6) we see that Achimelech was the high priest and that Abiathar was his son who succeeded him shortly thereafter. Jesus says that Abiathar was the high priest when David came and ate the bread of offering, but 1 Samual says that Achimelech was the high priest at that time. …
The rest is here: Did Jesus misquote 1 Samuel 21, confusing Abiathar with his father Achimelech?
