32 Bible Verses about Reclining To Eat

As they were at table eating, Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me, one who is eating with me."

So he ordered the crowd to recline on the ground, and taking the seven loaves he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve out. They served them out to the crowd,

Then he ordered the crowds to recline on the grass, and after taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, blessed them, and after breaking the loaves handed them to the disciples, and the disciples handed them to the crowds.

So he ordered the crowd to recline on the ground.

Then he gave orders that they were to make all the people lie down in parties on the green grass;

They did so, and made them all lie down.

Jesus said, "Get the people to lie down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot, so the men lay down, numbering about five thousand.

so they arranged themselves in groups of a hundred and of fifty;

(There were about five thousand men of them.) He said to his disciples, "Make them lie down in rows of about fifty."

Jesus was at table indoors, and many taxgatherers and sinners had come to be guests with him and his disciples.

a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of expensive perfume which she poured over his head as he lay at table.

Now when he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, lying at table, a woman came up with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, which had cost a great sum; the flask she broke and poured the perfume over his head.

When he finished speaking, a Pharisee asked him to take a meal in his house; so he went in and lay down at table.

And as he lay at table with them he took the loaf, blessed it, broke it and handed it to them.

When evening came he lay at table with the disciples,

and when the hour came he took his place, with the apostles beside him.

His fellow guests began to say to themselves, "Who is this, to forgive even sins?"

Now Levi was at table in his own house, and he had many taxgatherers and sinners as guests along with Jesus and his disciples ??for there were many of them among his followers.

They gave a supper for him there; Martha waited on him, and Lazarus was among those who reclined at table beside him.

Hearing this, one of his fellow guests said to him, "Blessed is he who feasts in the Realm of God!"

As one of his disciples was reclining on his breast ??he was the favourite of Jesus ??24 Peter nodded to him, saying, "Tell us who he means."

The disciple just leant back on the breast of Jesus and said, "Lord, who is it?"

Peter turned round and saw that the favourite disciple of Jesus was following, the disciple who had leant on his breast at supper and put the question, "Lord, who is to betray you?"

Many, I tell you, will come from east and west and take their places beside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Realm of heaven,

Afterwards he appeared at table to the eleven themselves and reproached them for their unbelief and dulness of mind, because they had not believed those who saw him risen from the dead. [But they excused themselves, saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief lies under the sway of Satan, who will not allow what lies under the unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God; therefore," they said to Christ, "reveal your righteousness now." Christ answered them, "The term of years for Satan's power has now expired, but other terrors are at hand. I was delivered to death on behalf of sinners, that they might return to the truth and sin no more, that they might inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual and imperishable in heaven."]

One of the Pharisees asked him to dinner, and entering the house of the Pharisee he reclined at table.

Now there was a woman in the town who was a sinner, and when she found out that Jesus was at table in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume

Blessed are those servants whom the lord and master finds awake when he comes! I tell you truly, he will gird himself, make them recline at table, and come forward to wait on them.

Yes, and people will come from east and west and north and south to their places at the feast within the Realm of God.

No, when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when your host comes in he will tell you, 'Move higher up, my friend.' Then you will be honoured before your fellow guests.

Which of you, with a servant out ploughing or shepherding, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and take your place at table'?

Which is the greatest, guest or servant? Is it not the guest? But I am among you as a servant.