And David went in flight from Naioth in Ramah and came to Jonathan and said, What have I done? What is my crime and my sin against your father that he is attempting to take my life?

But David took his oath again and said, Your father sees that I am dear to you so he says to himself, Let Jonathan have no idea of this, for it will be a grief to him but as the Lord is living, and as your soul is living, there is only a step between me and death.

And David said to Jonathan, Tomorrow is the new moon, and I will not be seated with the king at his table: but let me go to a safe place in the country till the evening.

If he says, It is well, your servant will be at peace: but if he is angry, then it will be clear to you that he has an evil purpose in mind against me.

And Jonathan said, Do not have such a thought: for if I saw that my father was designing evil against you, would I not give you word of it?

And Jonathan said to David, Come, let us go out into the country. And the two of them went out together into the open country.

May the Lord's punishment be on Jonathan, if it is my father's pleasure to do you evil and I do not give you word of it and send you away so that you may go in peace: and may the Lord be with you, as he has been with my father.

And let not your mercy ever be cut off from my family, even when the Lord has sent destruction on all David's haters, cutting them off from the face of the earth.

And Jonathan again took an oath to David, because of his love for him: for David was as dear to him as his very soul.

And on the third day it will be specially noted, and you will go to the place where you took cover when the other business was in hand, waiting by the hill over there.

And I will send my boy to have a look for the arrow. And if I say to him, See, the arrow is on this side of you take it up! then you may come for there is peace for you and no evil, by the living Lord.

As for what you and I were talking of, the Lord is between you and me for ever.

And the king took his seat, as at other times, by the wall: and Jonathan was in front, and Abner was seated by Saul's side, but there was no one in David's seat.

And on the day after the new moon, that is, the second day, there was still no one in David's seat: and Saul said to his son Jonathan, Why has the son of Jesse not come to the feast yesterday or today?

Saying, Our family is making an offering in the town, and my brothers have given me orders to be there: so now, if I have grace in your eyes, let me go away and see my brothers. This is why he has not come to the king's table.

For while the son of Jesse is living on the earth, your position is unsafe and your kingdom is in danger. So make him come here to me, for it is certainly right for him to be put to death.

And Saul, pointing his spear at him, made an attempt to give him a wound: from which it was clear to Jonathan that his father's purpose was to put David to death.

Now in the morning, Jonathan went out into the fields at the time he had said to David, and he had a little boy with him.

And when the boy came to the place where the arrow was, Jonathan, crying out after the boy, said, Has it not gone past you?

But the boy had no idea what was going on only Jonathan and David had knowledge of it.

And when the boy had gone, David came from his secret place by the hill, and falling to the earth went down on his face three times: and they gave one another a kiss, weeping together, till David's grief was the greater.

Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was full of fear at meeting David, and said to him, Why are you by yourself, having no man with you?

So now, if you have here five cakes of bread, give them into my hand, or whatever you have.

And David in answer said to the priest, Certainly women have been kept from us and as has been done before when I have gone out the arms of the young men were made holy, even though it was a common journey how much more today will their arms be made holy.

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, kept back before the Lord his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the strongest of Saul's runners.

And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you put to death in the valley of Elah, is here folded in a cloth at the back of the ephod: take that, if you will, for there is no other sword here. And David said, there is no other sword like that give it to me.

And the servants of Achish said to him, Is not this David, the king of the land? did they not make songs about him in their dances, saying, Saul has put to death thousands, and David tens of thousands?

So changing his behaviour before them, he made it seem as if he was off his head, hammering on the doors of the town, and letting the water from his mouth go down his chin.

Are there not enough unbalanced men about me, that you have let this person come and do such tricks before me? is such a man to come into my house?

So David went away from there and took cover in a strong place at Adullam and his brothers and all his father's people, hearing of it, went down to him there.

And from there David went to Mizpeh in the land of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Let my father and mother come and make their living-place with you till it is clear to me what God will do for me.

And the prophet Gad said to David, Do not go on living in this place but go into the land of Judah. Then David went away and came to the woodland of Hereth.

Then Saul said to his servants who were there about him, Give ear now, you Benjamites will the son of Jesse give to every one of you fields and vine-gardens, will he make you all captains of hundreds and captains of thousands

Then Doeg, the Edomite, who was by the side of the servants of Saul, in answer said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub.

Then the king sent for Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and for all the men of his father's family who were priests in Nob: and they all came to the king.

And Saul said to him, Why have you made designs against me with the son of Jesse, giving him food and a sword and getting directions from the Lord for him, and helping him to take up arms against me, and to be on the watch to make a secret attack on me as he is doing now?

Is this the first time I have got directions from God for him? Far be the thought! let the king make no such statement against his servant or my father's family, for your servant has no knowledge, great or small, of this thing.

Then the king said to the runners who were waiting near him, Put the priests of the Lord to death because they are on David's side, and having knowledge of his flight, did not give me word of it. But the king's servants would not put out their hands to make an attack on the Lord's priests.

And Nob, the town of the priests, he put to the sword, all the men and women, children and babies at the breast, and oxen and asses and sheep.

And gave him the news of how Saul had put to death the Lord's priests.

Keep here with me and have no fear for he who has designs on my life has designs on yours: but with me you will be safe.

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death:

And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head.

We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves.

The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever.

And truly I say to you, Wherever the good news goes out through all the earth, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.

And hearing what he said, they were glad, and gave him their word to make him a payment of money. And he took thought how he might best give him up to them.

And he sent two of his disciples, and said to them, Go into the town, and there will come to you a man with a vessel of water: go after him

And he will take you up himself to a great room with a table and seats: there make ready for us.

And when it was evening he came with the twelve.

They were sad, and said to him one by one, Is it I?

The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but cursed is that man through whom the Son of man is given up! It would have been well for that man if he had never been given birth.

And he took a cup, and when he had given praise, he gave it to them: and they all had a drink from it.

Truly I say to you, I will take no more of the fruit of the vine till the day when I take it new in the kingdom of God.