1. 1 Samuel 21:1 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Why does Mark 2:26 refer to Abiathar as the high priest?

1 Samuel 21:1 (ESV)

1 Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David trembling and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”

Though often translated as the time of Abiathar the high priest, it is possible that the account of Abiathar the high priest is in view rather than the time in which he served (see 1 Samuel 22:20).1

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