32 Bible Verses about Reclining To Eat
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And when they were at the table eating, Jesus said, "I tell you, one of you is going to betray me??ne who is eating with me."
Then he ordered the people to take their places on the ground. And he took the seven loaves and gave thanks and broke them in pieces and gave them to his disciples to pass, and they passed them to the people.
Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and he took the five loaves and the two fish and looked up to heaven and blessed them, and he broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to the disciples and they gave them to the people.
Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." There was plenty of grass there, so the men threw themselves down, about five thousand of them.
For there were about five thousand men. But he said to his disciples, "Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each."
While Jesus was at home at table, a number of tax-collectors and irreligious people came in and joined Jesus and his disciples at table.
a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive perfume and poured it upon his head, while he was at table.
Jesus was in Bethany, at the house of Simon the leper, and as he was at table, a woman came in, with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, very expensive; she broke the flask and poured the perfume on his head.
When he said this, a Pharisee asked him to lunch with him, and he went to his house and took his place at table.
And when he took his place with them at table, he took the bread and blessed it and broke it in pieces and handed it to them.
When evening came, he took his place at table with the twelve disciples.
When the time came, he took his place at the table, with the apostles about him.
The men at table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this man, who even forgives sins?"
He was at table in his house, with many tax-collectors and irreligious people who were at table with him and his disciples, for there were many of them among his followers.
They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha waited on them, while Lazarus was at the table with him.
One of the other guests heard this, and said to him, "Blessed is the man who shall be at the banquet in the Kingdom of God!"
Next to Jesus, at his right at the table, was one of his disciples whom Jesus especially loved.
He leaned back from where he lay, on Jesus' breast, and said to him, "Master, who is it?"
Peter turned and saw following them the disciple who was very dear to Jesus, who at the supper leaned back on Jesus' breast and said, "Master, who is it that is going to betray you?"
And I tell you, many will come from the east and from the west and take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven,
Still later he appeared to the Eleven themselves when they were at table, and reproached them for their obstinacy and want of faith, because they had not believed those who had seen him after he had been raised from the dead.
One of the Pharisees asked him to have dinner with him, and he went to the Pharisee's house and took his place at the table.
Blessed are the slaves whom their master will find on the watch when he comes. I tell you, he will gird up his robe and make them take their places at table, and go around and wait on them.
People will come from the east and west and the north and south, and take their places in the Kingdom of God.
But when you are invited anywhere, go and take the poorest place, so that when your host comes in, he will say to you, 'My friend, come to a better place.' So you will be shown consideration before all the other guests.
"What man among you, if he has a servant ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down at the table,'
For which is greater, the man at the table, or the servant who waits on him? Is not the man at the table? Yet I am like a servant among you.
Bible Theasaurus
- Eat (765 instances)
- Reclining (26 instances)