'Food' in the Bible

John himself had a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

After He had gone without food for forty days and forty nights, He became hungry.

And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;

So that no one may see that you are going without food, but your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.

“This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Look at the birds in the sky. They don't plant or harvest or gather food into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You are more valuable than they are, aren't you?

Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed?

Now there was, some distance away, a great herd of pigs taking their food.

And it came about, when he was in the house taking food, that a number of tax-farmers and sinners came and took their places with Jesus and his disciples.

And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?

Then the disciples of John [the Baptist] came to Jesus, asking, “Why do we and the Pharisees often fast [as a religious exercise], but Your disciples do not fast?”

And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.

Don’t take a traveling bag for the road, or an extra shirt, sandals, or a walking stick, for the worker is worthy of his food.

For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit.

The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.

At that time Jesus went through the fields on the Sabbath day; and his disciples, being in need of food, were taking the heads of grain.

But he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did when he had need of food, and those who were with him?

How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?

And while he did so, some seeds were dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took them for food:

When evening came, the disciples approached Him and said, “This place is a wilderness, and it is already late. Send the crowds away so they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

But Jesus said to them, There is no need for them to go away; give them food yourselves.

Ordering the people to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food, and breaking the loaves He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds,

And they all took of the food and had enough: and they took up twelve baskets full of broken bits which were not used.

And those who had food were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children.

Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.

These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.

Then Jesus called his disciples and said, "I have compassion for the crowd because they have already been with me for three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away without food, or they may faint on the road."

And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?

And they all took food, and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits, seven baskets full.

And there were four thousand men who took food, together with women and children.

Now in the morning when he was coming back to the town, he had a desire for food.

For nation will be moved against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and men will be without food, and the earth will be shaking in different places;

“Who then is a faithful and sensible slave, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give them food at the proper time?

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,

Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink?

for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink;

Then will they make answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food or drink, or wandering, or without clothing, or ill, or in prison, and did not take care of you?

And on the first day of the unleavened food came the disciples near to Jesus, saying to him, 'Where wilt thou that we may prepare for thee to eat the passover?'

And while they were taking food, he said, Truly I say to you that one of you will be false to me.

And when they were taking food, Jesus took bread and, after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to the disciples and said, Take it; this is my body.