'Best' in the Bible

But when evening was come, the disciples came to Him and said, "This is an uninhabited place, and the best of the day is now gone; send the people away to go into the villages and buy something to eat."

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

"You can have a guard," said Pilate: "go and make all safe, as best you can."

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

Alas for you Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues, and you like to be bowed to in places of public resort.

Then, when He noticed that the invited guests chose the best seats, He used this as an illustration and said to them,

"When any one invites you to a wedding banquet, do not take the best seat, lest perhaps some more honoured guest than you may have been asked,

"But the father said to his servants, "'Fetch a good coat quickly--the best one--and put it on him; and bring a ring for his finger and shoes for his feet.

"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;

Agrippa answered, "In brief, you are doing your best to persuade me to become a Christian."

Now think how great this priest-king must have been to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth part of the best of the spoil.

So on every possible occasion I will also do my best to enable you to recall these things after my departure.