I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."

Then Jesus said to them, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven.

Now the Passover Festival and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were held two days later. [Note: This was the annual Jewish Festival week commemorating Israel's deliverance from Egyptian bondage under Moses' leadership. The unleavened bread was specially baked bread containing no yeast, which was eaten for seven days as part of the celebration]. And the leading priests and experts in the law of Moses were looking for a way to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.

Then he took a piece of bread, dipped it, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. After he had taken the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Do quickly what you are going to do!"

For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.

Jesus answered, It is he to whom I shall give this morsel of bread, when I have dipped it. And dipping the morsel of bread, he gave it unto Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.

And when he had said this and had taken bread, he gave praise to God before them all, and took a meal of the broken bread.

I am the Bread of Life [the Living Bread which gives and sustains life].

And he took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes; and having given praise, he gave the broken bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

And when they were taking food, Jesus took bread and, after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to the disciples and said, Take it; this is my body.

And he said to them, How much bread have you? go and see. And when they had seen, they said, Five cakes of bread and two fishes.

And they had taken no thought to get bread; and they had only one cake of bread with them in the boat.

And while they were taking food, he took bread, and after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to them, and said, Take it: this is my body.

So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

Then said they to him, Lord, ever give us this bread. And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life.

how he entered the house of God [i.e., the Temple] and took some 'Bread of Presence' and ate it, and also gave some to his men to eat? [This practice] was not permissible according to the law of Moses, [since the bread was reserved] only for the priests."

The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, I am the bread which came down out of heaven.

For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.

Give us day by day our daily bread.

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

Then these recounted what had passed on the road, and how he was known to them by the breaking of the bread.

Now the feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was drawing near.

Then the day of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.

And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

He that findeth the sower seed, shall minister bread for food, and shall multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness - that on all parts

The first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus saying unto him, "Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the paschal lamb?"

for John the baptist came neither eating bread, nor drinking wine, and ye say, he hath a demon:

And He said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; nor two coats a piece.

And taking bread, and giving thanks, he broke and gave them, saying, This is my body given for you; this do in remembrance of me.

I'm not talking about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: "The one who ate bread with me has turned against me.'

So Judas took the piece of bread, immediately went outside"and it was night.

And the tempter approached [and] said to him, "If you are the Son of God, order that these stones become bread."

But he answered [and] said, "It is written, 'Man will not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes out of the mouth of God."

and when he reclined with them, taking bread, he blessed, and breaking, gave them.

And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the passover, his disciples say unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and make ready that thou mayest eat the passover?

And the Evil One said to him, If you are the Son of God, give orders to this stone to become bread.

And Jesus made answer to him, It has been said in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need.

"It is one of you Twelve," said Jesus, "the one who is dipping his bread beside me into the dish.

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of bread parted with his birthrights.

and when he saw that this was agreeable to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too -- it was at the time of the feast of Unleavened Bread.

When they arrived at the shore, they saw a charcoal fire with fish lying on it, and some bread.

Jesus took the bread, gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.

And they came unto house, and the people assembled together again, so greatly that they had not leisure so much as to eat bread.

But he said, Give them food yourselves. And they said, We have only five cakes of bread and two fishes, if we do not go and get food for all these people.

And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them, and when they had been broken, he gave them to the disciples to give to the people.

And he said to them, Which of you, having a friend, would go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, Friend, let me have three cakes of bread;

And commanded them, that they should take nothing unto their Journey, save a rod only: Neither scrip, neither bread, neither money in their purses:

let them depart, that they may go into the country round about, and into the towns, and buy them bread: for they have nothing to eat."

He answered and said unto them, "Give ye them to eat." And they said unto him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?"

Then Jesus lining up his eyes, and seeing many people come to him, said to Philip, Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat?

how he entered into the house of God and ate the bread of the presentation, which it was not permitted for him or for those with him to eat, but only for the priests?

Philip answered him, Two hundred denarii [$28] worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that each may take a little.

Then Jesus took the bread, and having given thanks, distributed it to those reclining; likewise also of the fishes, as much as they wished.

ON the next day, the multitude standing on the other side of the lake seeing that there was no other boat there except one, and that Jesus entered not into the ship with his disciples but his disciples had gone away alone,??23 but other boats came from Tiberias near the place where they had eaten bread after the Lord gave thanks,??24 when, therefore, the multitude saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they went into the ships and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

Jesus answered them and said, I tell you most truly, you seek me not because you saw miracles, but because you eat of the bread and were filled.

Our fathers eat the manna in the wilderness, as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes in me shall never thirst.

And he answered [and] said, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw [it] to the dogs!"

And the disciples said to him, "Where in [this] desolate place {can we get} so much bread that such a great crowd could be satisfied?"

And [when] the disciples arrived at the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.

So they were discussing [this] among themselves, saying, "[It is] because we did not take bread."

But knowing [this], Jesus said, "Why are you discussing among yourselves that you did not take bread, [you] of little faith?

How do you not understand that I did not speak to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Then they understood that he did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Give us today our daily bread,

Or what man is [there] among you, [if] his son will ask him [for] bread, will give him a stone?

The believers continued to devote themselves to what the apostles were teaching, to fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to times of prayer.

Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart,

while we, after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, sailed from Philippi, and five days after joined them at Troas, where we spent a week.

On the first day of the week when we had met to break bread, Paul addressed them, since he was leaving the next day, and prolonged his speech till midnight.

When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

And when they saw certain of his disciples eat bread with common hands, that is to say, with unwashen hands, they complained.

Then asked him the Pharisees and scribes, "Why walk not thy disciples according to the traditions of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?"

And Jesus said unto her, "Let the children first be fed. For it is not meet, to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto whelps."

And his disciples answered him, "Where should a man have bread here in the wilderness to satisfy these?"

And they reasoned among themselves saying, "We have no bread."

And when Jesus knew that, he said unto them, "Why take ye thought because ye have no bread? Perceive ye not yet, neither understand? Have ye your hearts yet blinded?

(but now little vessels had come from Tiberias near to the spot where they had eaten bread, after the Lord had given thanks:)

how he entered into the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the bread of the presentation, which it is not permitted to eat (except the priests) and also gave [it] to those who were with him?"

Why do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

but this is the bread which cometh down from heaven,

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

For the account that I passed on to you I myself received from the Lord Himself, that the Lord Jesus on the night He was betrayed took a loaf of bread

For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

So whoever eats the bread and drinks from the Lord's cup in an unworthy way is guilty of sinning against the Lord's body and blood.

A man, then, must examine himself, and only in this way should he eat any of the bread and drink from the cup.

They told him, "We don't have anything here except five loaves of bread and two fish."

Jesus asked them, "How many loaves of bread do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."

"The one who dipped his bread beside me in the dish," replied Jesus, "is the one who will betray me.

All ate and had enough; and they carried away broken fragments of bread and of fish, enough to fill twelve baskets.

Those who ate the bread were five thousand adult men.

He asked them, "How many loaves of bread do you have?" "Seven," they said.