7 Bible Verses about Dinner
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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. When the Pharisees saw it, they kept saying to his disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with the tax-gatherers and sinners?" "It is not those who are well," said Jesus, when he heard this, "but the sick, who need a doctor.
Then came a convenient day, when Herod on his birthday held a feast for his lords and generals and the leading men of Galilee,
Levi also made him a great reception at his house. There was a large party of tax-gatherers and others who were dining with them.
So they filled them brimful. Then he said, "Draw some out now, and carry it to the master of the feast."
So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves??he broken pieces that were left after they had eaten.
But they urged him to stay with them, saying, "Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is now far spent."
So they gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served it; but Lazarus was one of those who reclined with him at table.
From Thematic Bible
Dinner » Eaten at noon
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"Again he sent out other slaves. 'Tell the invited guests,' he said, 'that my luncheon is now ready; my oxen and fat cattle are killed; everything is ready; come to the wedding-feast.'
Also to his host who had invited him, he continued, saying. "When you are making a dinner-party or a supper, do not invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, lest it chance that they invite you in return, and a recompense be made by you.