'Eat' in the Bible

For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

Be not therefore careful, saying, What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or What shall we put on?

And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples, Why does your teacher eat with tax-gatherers and sinners?

At that time Jesus went on the sabbath through the cornfields; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears and to eat.

How he entered into the house of God, and ate the shewbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those with him, but for the priests only?

But Jesus said to them, They have no need to go: give ye them to eat.

Why do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.

But Jesus, having called his disciples to him, said, I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat, and I would not send them away fasting lest they should faint on the way.

and begin to beat his fellow-bondmen, and eat and drink with the drunken;

for I hungered, and ye gave me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;

for I hungered, and ye gave me not to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me not to drink;

Now on the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?

And as they were eating, Jesus, having taken the bread and blessed, broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.

how he entered into the house of God, in the section of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the shew-bread, which it is not lawful unless for the priests to eat, and gave even to those that were with him?

And again a crowd comes together, so that they cannot even eat bread.

And he charged them much that no one should know this; and he desired that something should be given her to eat.

And he said to them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place and rest a little. For those coming and those going were many, and they had not leisure even to eat.

send them away that they may go into the country and villages around, and buy themselves bread, for they have not anything they can eat.

And he answering said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they say to him, Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them to eat?

and seeing some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands,

(for the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands diligently, do not eat, holding what has been delivered by the ancients;

and on coming from the market-place, unless they are washed, they do not eat; and there are many other things which they have received to hold, the washing of cups and vessels, and brazen utensils, and couches),

then the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why do thy disciples not walk according to what has been delivered by the ancients, but eat the bread with defiled hands?

But she answered and says to him, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

In those days, there being again a great crowd, and they having nothing that they could eat, having called his disciples to him, he says to them,

I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat,

And answering he said to it, Let no one eat fruit of thee any more for ever. And his disciples heard it.

And the first day of unleavened bread, when they slew the passover, his disciples say to him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?

And wheresoever he enters, say to the master of the house, The Teacher says, Where is my guest-chamber where I may eat the passover with my disciples?

forty days, tempted of the devil; and in those days he did not eat anything, and when they were finished he hungered.

And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured at his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with tax-gatherers and sinners?

And they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often and make supplications, in like manner those also of the Pharisees, but thine eat and drink?

how he entered into the house of God and took the shewbread and ate, and gave to those also who were with him, which it is not lawful that any eat, unless the priests alone?

But one of the Pharisees begged him that he would eat with him. And entering into the house of the Pharisee he took his place at table;

And her spirit returned, and immediately she rose up; and he commanded something to eat to be given to her.

And he said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have not more than five loaves and two fishes, unless we should go and buy food for all this people;

And into whatsoever city ye may enter and they receive you, eat what is set before you,

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.

And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye shall put on.

And ye, seek not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, and be not in anxiety;

But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,

And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the rulers, who was of the Pharisees, to eat bread on the sabbath, that they were watching him.

And one of those that were lying at table with them, hearing these things, said to him, Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry:

But will he not say to him, Prepare what I shall sup on, and gird thyself and serve me that I may eat and drink; and after that thou shalt eat and drink?

And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare the passover for us, that we may eat it.

and ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher says to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where I may eat the passover with my disciples?

And he said to them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer.

For I say unto you, that I will not eat any more at all of it until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.

that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

But while they yet did not believe for joy, and were wondering, he said to them, Have ye anything here to eat?

But meanwhile the disciples asked him saying, Rabbi, eat.

But he said to them, I have food to eat which ye do not know.

The disciples therefore said to one another, Has any one brought him anything to eat?

Jesus then, lifting up his eyes and seeing that a great crowd is coming to him, says to Philip, Whence shall we buy loaves that these may eat?

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.

The Jews therefore contended among themselves, saying, How can he give us this flesh to eat?

They lead therefore Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium; and it was early morn. And they entered not into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but eat the passover.

Jesus therefore says to them, Children, have ye anything to eat? They answered him, No.

And he became hungry and desired to eat. But as they were making ready an ecstasy came upon him:

And there was a voice to him, Rise, Peter, slay and eat.

And I heard also a voice saying to me, Rise up, Peter, slay and eat.

And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.

Do not thou then be persuaded by them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have put themselves under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they kill him; and now they are ready waiting the promise from thee.

And, having said these things and taken a loaf, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken it began to eat.

One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak eats herbs.

He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord. And he that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, it is to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

It is right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor do anything in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

But he that doubts, if he eat, is condemned; because it is not of faith; but whatever is not of faith is sin.

But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with him; with such a one not even to eat.

But knowledge is not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

But see lest anywise this your right to eat itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.

For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?

Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.

Have we not a right to eat and to drink?

Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

Do ye not know that they who labour at sacred things eat of the offerings offered in the temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar?

Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?

Everything sold in the shambles eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

But if any one of the unbelievers invite you, and ye are minded to go, all that is set before you eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

But if any one say to you, This is offered to holy purposes, do not eat, for his sake that pointed it out, and conscience sake;

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God's glory.

When ye come therefore together into one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

For as often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye announce the death of the Lord, until he come.

So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord.

But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

So that, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another.

If any one be hungry, let him eat at home, that ye may not come together for judgment. But the other things, whenever I come, I will set in order.

If, to speak after the manner of man, I have fought with beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me if those that are dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.

For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.

Now such we enjoin and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread.

We have an altar of which they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle;

Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in the last days.

He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him that overcomes, I will give to him to eat of the tree of life which is in the paradise of God.

But I have a few things against thee: that thou hast there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the sons of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices and commit fornication.

But I have against thee that thou permittest the woman Jezebel, she who calls herself prophetess, and she teaches and leads astray my servants to commit fornication and eat of idol sacrifices.