32 Bible Verses about Reclining To Eat
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And as they were at table eating, Jesus said, "Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me."
So he commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves, and having given thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; and they set them before the crowd.
Then he commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave them to the multitudes.
Then he commanded them to make them all sit down in groups on the green grass.
Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was much grass in the place; so the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
For there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each."
And as Jesus sat at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive perfume, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.
And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly. And she broke the flask and poured it over his head.
While he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him; so he went in and sat at table.
When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.
Then those who reclined at the table with him began to say among themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
And as he sat at table in Levi's house, many tax collectors and sinners were sitting with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many who followed him.
There they made him a supper; and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
When one of those who sat at table with him heard this, he said to him, "Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!"
One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was leaning close to the breast of Jesus.
Then, leaning back on the breast of Jesus, he said to him, "Lord, who is it?"
Peter turned and saw following them the disciple whom Jesus loved, who had leaned on his breast at the supper and had said, "Lord, who is the one who is going to betray you?"
I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
Later he appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went to the Pharisee's house, and reclined at the table.
And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of perfume,
Blessed are those servants whom the master finds watching when he comes. Truly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and will come and serve them.
And men will come from east and west, and from north and south, and sit at table in the kingdom of God.
But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, 'Friend, go up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.
"Will any one of you, who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep, say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down to eat'?
For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Is it not the one who sits at the table? But I am among you as One who serves.
