32 Bible Verses about Reclining To Eat

While they were at the table, eating, Jesus said solemnly. "It is one of you who will betray me??ne who is eating with me."

So he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground; and when he had taken the seven loaves, he gave thanks, broke them, and gave to his disciples to distribute to the crowd.

Then he told the people to sit down on the grass, and after taking the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves and handed them to the disciples, and the disciples handed them to the crowds.

So when he had summoned the crowd, and seated them upon the ground,

Then he directed them to make all sit down by companies on the green grass.

This they did, and made them all sit down.

"Make the men sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so the men sat down, in numbers about five thousand. "of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me;

And they sat down like beds in a garden, by hundreds and by fifties.

(For there were about five thousand men.) "Make them sit down in table-companies, of about fifty each," he said to his disciples.

And he rose and followed him. And while he was at table in Matthew's house, there came many tax-gatherers and sinners, and they dined with Jesus and his disciples.

a woman came up to him who had an alabaster vase of very costly perfume, and poured it over his head, as he reclined at table.

And while he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, while he was dining, a woman came with an alabaster vase of very costly, pure spikenard perfume, and, breaking the vase, she poured the perfume on his head.

When he had finished speaking a Pharisee asked him to dine with him; so he went in with him and reclined.

So he went in to stay with them. But as he sat down with them, and took bread, and had blessed and broken it, and was handing it to them,

When evening came he reclined at table with the Twelve;

And when the hour was come he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him,

Then the other guest began to say among themselves, "Who is this even to forgive sins?"

Later on Levi was sitting at table in his house, and together with Jesus and his disciples a number of tax-gatherers and sinners were guests, for there were many of them who used to follow him.

So they gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served it; but Lazarus was one of those who reclined with him at table.

One of his fellow guest who was listening to him, said to him, "Blessed are those who eat bread in the kingdom of God."

There was reclining upon Jesus' breast one of the disciples whom he loved.

So that disciples just leaned back against Jesus' breast and said to him, "Lord, who is it?"

Peter turned around and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following??e who at the supper leaned back upon his breast and said, "Lord, who is to betray you?"

"I tell you that many will come from the east and from the west, and sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

Afterward he appeared to the Eleven themselves, as they were eating, and reproached them for their lack of faith, and stubborn hearts, because they disbelieved those who had seen him risen.

One of the Pharisees kept urging him to dine, so he entered the house and reclined at table.

Now there was a woman who was in the city, a sinner and when she knew that that Jesus was reclining at meat in the Pharisees house, she brought an alabaster vase of perfume,

"Happy are those slaves whom their master shall find watching when he comes. I tell you truly that will gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and come and serve them.

"And people shall come from the Orient and from the Occident, from the north and from the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God.

"But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when your host arrives he may say to you, 'My friend, come up higher.' Then you will be honored before the other guest.

"But who of you who has a slave plowing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he is come in from the field, 'Come at once, sit down to dinner,'

"For which is greater, he who sits at table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at table? But I am in your midst as one who serves.