the bread to his companions as well (cf. 1 Sam. 21:1–6; according to the Hebrew text, it was Ahimelek, the father of Abiathar, who gave David the consecrated bread. There is some confusion in that 1 Sam. 22:20 calls Abiathar the son of Ahimelek, and 2 Sam. 8:17 and 1 Chr. 18:16; 24:6 make Ahimelek the son of Abiathar; when Mark 2:26 is translated ‘when Abiathar was high priest’ [NRSV], the problem persists, unless one assumes that Mark followed a different textual tradition that surfaces e.g. in
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