'Dinner' in the Bible

and love the best seats at a dinner party or in the synagogues,

and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues and at dinner parties,

Also to His host, who had invited Him, He said, "When you give a breakfast or a dinner, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbours, lest perhaps they should invite you in return and a requital be made you.

"A man once gave a great dinner," replied Jesus, "to which he invited a large number of guests.

For I tell you that not one of those who were invited shall taste my dinner.'"

and will not rather say to him, 'Get my dinner ready, make yourself tidy, and wait upon me till I have finished my dinner, and then you shall have yours'?

"Beware of the Scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and love to be bowed to in places of public resort and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues or at a dinner party;

So they gave a dinner there in honour of Jesus, at which Martha waited at table, but Lazarus was one of the guests who were with Him.