'Eat' in the Bible

Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, eat something."

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one brought him anything to eat, did they?"

Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?"

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor's residence. (Now it was very early morning.) They did not go into the governor's residence so they would not be ceremonially defiled, but could eat the Passover meal.