Reference: Dinner
Fausets
The early meal, generally at 11 o'clock, as "supper" was the later meal, and that to which friends were asked as to a feast (Lu 14:12).
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He also said to the one who had invited Him, "When you give a lunch or a dinner, don't invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid.
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Morish
1. aruchah, 'allowance.' Any meal of herbs where there is love is better than a stalled ox with hatred. Pr 15:17.
2. akal, 'to eat.' Joseph's brethren were 'to eat' with him at noon. Ge 43:16.
3. riston -->??????? a meal taken in the morning: cf. Joh 21:4,12,15; but late enough for friends to be invited. Lu 11:37-38. Used for a marriage feast in Mt 22:2,4, perhaps as late as noon: it is distinguished from 'supper' in Lu 14:12.
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When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to his steward, "Take the men to [my] house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they will eat with me at noon."
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.
"The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.
Again, he sent out other slaves, and said, 'Tell those who are invited: Look, I've prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet. '
As He was speaking, a Pharisee asked Him to dine with him. So He went in and reclined at the table. When the Pharisee saw this, he was amazed that He did not first perform the ritual washing before dinner.
He also said to the one who had invited Him, "When you give a lunch or a dinner, don't invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid.
When daybreak came, Jesus stood on the shore. However, the disciples did not know it was Jesus.
"Come and have breakfast," Jesus told them. None of the disciples dared ask Him, "Who are You?" because they knew it was the Lord.
When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love , the first 2 times by Jesus (vv. 15-16 ); and phileo , the last time by Jesus (v. 17 ) and all 3 times by Peter (vv. 15-17 ). Peter's threefold confession of love for Jesus corresponds to his earlier threefold denial of Jesus; Jn 18:15-18 , 25-27 . Me more than these?" "Yes, Lord," he said to Him, "You know that I love You." "Feed My lambs," He told him.