:TEXT: "he entered into the house of God in [the time of] Abiathar [the] high priest, and ate" : S B K L 892 1010 Byz some Lect some lat vg syr(p,h) some syr(pal) : ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: ANOTES: "he entered into the house of God, and ate" : D W 1009 1546* some lat syr(s) some syr(pal) : -NOTES: "he entered into the house of God in [the time of] Abiathar the high priest, and ate" : A C Theta Pi 074 f1 f13 28 33 565 700 1241 most Lect cop : KJV ASVn OTHER: "he entered into the house of God in [the time of] Abiathar the priest, and ate" : Delta one lat : The problem here revolves around the fact that Abiathar was not high priest at the time that David took the bread. His father, Ahimelech, was then high priest, and it was only later that Abiathar became high priest. The Greek idiom most naturally means "during the time that Abiathar was high priest." For this reason some copyists omitted the phrase. However, the phrase may have two other meanings: First, it may be that Jesus just mentions Abiathar with the highest title that he wore, thus meaning "in the time of Abiathar, who became high priest." The addition of "the" before "high priest" which some manuscripts have would make this meaning more possible in Greek. Second, it is also possible to translate the idiom "in [the passage about] Abiathar [the] high priest," as is found in Mark 12:26 : "in [the passage about] the bush."