32 Bible Verses about Reclining To Eat
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And when they had taken their places and were eating, Jesus said: "I tell you that one of you is going to betray me--one who is eating with me."
Jesus told the crowd to sit down upon the ground. Then he took the seven loaves, and, after saying the thanksgiving, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve out; and they served them out to the crowd.
Jesus ordered the people to take their seats on the grass; and, taking the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to Heaven, and said the blessing, and, after he had broken the loaves, gave them to his disciples; and they gave them to the crowds.
Jesus directed them to make all the people take their seats on the green grass, in parties;
"Make the people sit down," said Jesus. It was a grassy spot; so the men, who numbered about five thousand, sat down,
(For the men among them were about five thousand.) "Get them seated in companies," was his reply, "about fifty in each."
And, later on, when he was at table in the house, a number of tax-gatherers and outcasts came in and took their places at table with Jesus and his disciples.
a woman came up to him with an alabaster jar of very costly perfume, and poured the perfume upon his head as he was at table.
When Jesus was still at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, while he was at table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of choice spikenard perfume of great value. She broke the jar, and poured the perfume on his head.
As Jesus finished speaking, a Pharisee asked him to breakfast with him, and Jesus went in and took his place at table.
After he had taken his place at table with them, he took the bread and said the blessing, and broke it, and gave it to them.
When the time came, Jesus took his place at table, and the Apostles with him.
On this, those at table began to say to one another: "Who is this man who even pardons sins?"
And later on he was in his house at table, and a number of tax-gatherers and outcasts took their places at table with Jesus and his disciples; for many of them were following him.
There a supper was given in honor at which Martha waited, while Lazarus was one of those present at the table.
One of the guests heard what he said and exclaimed: "Happy will he be who shall eat bread in the Kingdom of God!"
Next to Jesus, in the place on his right hand, was one of his disciples, whom he loved.
Being in this position, that disciple leant back on Jesus' shoulder, and asked him: "Who is it, Master?"
Peter turned round, and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following--the one who at the supper leant back on the Master's shoulder, and asked him who it was that would betray him.
Yes, and many will come in from East and West and take their places beside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven;
Later on, he made himself known to the Eleven themselves as they were at a meal, and reproached them with their want of faith and their stubbornness, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen from the dead.
One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to dine with him, so Jesus went to his house and took his place at table.
Just then a woman, who was an outcast in the town, having ascertained that Jesus was at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster jar of perfume,
Happy are those servants whom, on his return, the Master will find watching. I tell you that he will make himself ready, and bid them take their places at table, and will come and wait upon them.
People will come from East and West, and from North and South, and take their places at the banquet in the Kingdom of God.
No, when you are invited, go and take the lowest place, so that, when he who has invited you comes, he may say to you 'Friend, come higher up'; and then you will be honored in the eyes of all your fellow-guests.
Which of you, if he had a servant ploughing, or tending the sheep, would say to him, when he came in from the fields, 'Come at once and take your place at table,'
Which is the greater--the master at the table or his servant? Is not it the master at the table? Yet I myself am among you as one who serves.
