33 Bible Verses about Reclining To Eat

As they were reclining at the table and eating, Jesus said, “Truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me—one who is eating with Me.”

And He *directed the people to sit down on the ground; and taking the seven loaves, He gave thanks and broke them, and started giving them to His disciples to serve to them, and they served them to the people.

Ordering the people to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food, and breaking the loaves He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds,

And He directed the people to sit down on the ground;

And He commanded them all to sit down by groups on the green grass.

They did so, and had them all sit down.

Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

They sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties.

(For there were about five thousand men.) And He said to His disciples, “Have them sit down to eat in groups of about fifty each.”

Then it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were dining with Jesus and His disciples.

a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at the table.

While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head.

Now when He had spoken, a Pharisee *asked Him to have lunch with him; and He went in, and reclined at the table.

When He had reclined at the table with them, He took the bread and blessed it, and breaking it, He began giving it to them.

Now when evening came, Jesus was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.

When the hour had come, He reclined at the table, and the apostles with Him.

Those who were reclining at the table with Him began to say to themselves, “Who is this man who even forgives sins?”

And it *happened that He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many of them, and they were following Him.

So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.

When one of those who were reclining at the table with Him heard this, he said to Him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”

There was reclining on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.

He, leaning back thus on Jesus’ bosom, *said to Him, “Lord, who is it?”

Peter, turning around, *saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; the one who also had leaned back on His bosom at the supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?”

I say to you that many will come from east and west, and recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;

Afterward He appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reproached them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen.

Now one of the Pharisees was requesting Him to dine with him, and He entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table.

And there was a woman in the city who was a sinner; and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume,

Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find on the alert when he comes; truly I say to you, that he will gird himself to serve, and have them recline at the table, and will come up and wait on them.

And they will come from east and west and from north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God.

But when you are invited, go and recline at the last place, so that when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will have honor in the sight of all who are at the table with you.

“Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down to eat’?

For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I am among you as the one who serves.

Therefore, they will now go into exile at the head of the exiles,
And the sprawlers’ banqueting will pass away.