'Feast' in the Bible
“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.
And he sent out his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come.
Again he sent out other slaves saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fattened livestock are all butchered and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast.”’
Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find there, invite to the wedding feast.’
And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut.
Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the people any one prisoner whom they wanted.
Now at the feast he used to release for them any one prisoner whom they requested.
Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.
And when He became twelve, they went up there according to the custom of the Feast;
Be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks.
“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him,
Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.
Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name, observing His signs which He was doing.
So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.
Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near.
Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this feast because My time has not yet fully come.”
But when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He Himself also went up, not publicly, but as if, in secret.
So the Jews were seeking Him at the feast and were saying, “Where is He?”
But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and began to teach.
Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem;
So they were seeking for Jesus, and were saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think; that He will not come to the feast at all?”
On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast;
Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, “Buy the things we have need of for the feast”; or else, that he should give something to the poor.
Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;
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Bible Theasaurus
- Banquet (70 instances)
- Feast (232 instances)
- Feed (140 instances)
- Festivity (1 instance)
- Meal (335 instances)
- Spread (323 instances)
- Treat (123 instances)
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