'Bread' in the Bible

"It is written," replied Jesus, "'It is not on bread alone that a man shall live, but on whatsoever God shall appoint.'"

give us to-day our bread for the day;

What man is there among you, who if his son shall ask him for bread will offer him a stone?

"It is not right," He said, "to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

"Where can we," asked the disciples, "get bread enough in this remote place to satisfy so vast a multitude?"

When the disciples arrived at the other side of the Lake, they found that they had forgotten to bring any bread;

they reasoned among themselves, saying, "It is because we have not brought any bread."

Jesus perceived this and said, "Why are you reasoning among yourselves, you men of little faith, because you have no bread?

How is it you do not understand that it was not about bread that I spoke to you? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

On the first day of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus with the question, "Where shall we make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"

He charged them to take nothing for the journey except a stick; no bread, no bag, and not a penny in their pockets,

"Give them food yourselves," He replied. "Are we," they asked, "to go and buy two hundred shillings' worth of bread and give them food?"

Those who ate the bread were 5,000 adult men.

"Let the children first eat all they want," He said; "it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

"Where can we possibly get bread here in this remote place to satisfy such a crowd?" answered His disciples.

Now they had forgotten to take bread, nor had they more than a single loaf with them in the boat;

they explained His words to one another by saying, "We have no bread!"

He perceived what they were saying, and He said to them, "What is this discussion of yours about having no bread? Do you not yet see and understand? Are your minds so dull of comprehension?

It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the High Priests and Scribes were bent on finding how to seize Him by stratagem and put Him to death.

On the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread--the day for killing the Passover lamb--His disciples asked Him, "Where shall we go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?"

Then the Devil said to Him, "If you are God's Son, tell this stone to become bread."

"It is written," replied Jesus, "'It is not on bread alone that a man shall live.'"

For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a demon!'

And He commanded them, "Take nothing for your journey; neither stick nor bag nor bread nor money; and do not have an extra under garment.

give us day after day our bread for the day;

And He said to them, "Which of you shall have a friend and shall go to him in the middle of the night and say, "'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread;

"And he from indoors shall answer, "'Do not pester me. The door is now barred, and I am here in bed with my children. I cannot get up and give you bread.'

And what father is there among you, who, if his son asks for a slice of bread, will offer him a stone? or if he asks for a fish, will instead of a fish offer him a snake?

"But on coming to himself he said, "'How many of my father's hired men have more bread than they want, while I here am dying of hunger!

Meanwhile the Festival of the Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,

When the day of the Unleavened Bread came--the day for the Passover lamb to be sacrificed--

But as soon as He had sat down with them, and had taken the bread and had blessed and broken it, and was handing it to them,

Then they related what had happened on the way, and how He had been recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

And when He looked round and saw an immense crowd coming towards Him, He said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for all these people to eat?"

"Seven pounds' worth of bread," replied Philip, "is not enough for them all to get even a scanty meal."

Yet a number of small boats came from Tiberias to the neighbourhood of the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

Our forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, as it is written, 'He gave them bread out of Heaven to eat'."

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that Moses did not give you the bread out of Heaven, but my Father is giving you the bread--the true bread--out of Heaven.

For God's bread is that which comes down out of Heaven and gives Life to the world."

"Sir," they said, "always give us that bread."

"I am the bread of Life," replied Jesus; "he who comes to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never, never thirst.

Now the Jews began to find fault about Him because of His claiming to be the bread which came down out of Heaven.

I am the bread of Life.

Here is the bread that comes down out of Heaven that a man may eat it and not die.

I am the living bread come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world."

This is the bread which came down out of Heaven; it is unlike that which your forefathers ate--for they ate and yet died. He who eats this bread shall live for ever."

I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but things are as they are in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says, 'He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'

"It is the one," answered Jesus, "for whom I shall dip this piece of bread and to whom I shall give it." Accordingly He dipped the piece of bread, and took it and gave it to Judas, the son of the Iscariot Simon.

Then, after Judas had received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. "Lose no time about it," said Jesus to him.

So Judas took the piece of bread and immediately went out. And it was night.

As soon as they landed, they saw a charcoal fire burning there, with fish broiling on it, and bread close by.

Then Jesus came and took the bread and gave them some, and the fish in the same way.

and they were constant in listening to the teaching of the Apostles and in their attendance at the Communion, that is, the Breaking of the Bread, and at prayer.

And, day by day, attending constantly in the Temple with one accord, and breaking bread in private houses, they took their meals with great happiness and single-heartedness,

Finding that this gratified the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also; these being the days of Unleavened Bread.

But we ourselves sailed from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and five days later joined them in the Troad, where we remained for a week.

On the first day of the week, when we had met to break bread, Paul, who was going away the next morning, was preaching to them, and prolonged his discourse till midnight.

Then he went upstairs again, broke bread, and took some food; and after a long conversation which was continued till daybreak, at last he parted from them.

Having said this he took some bread, and, after giving thanks to God for it before them all, he broke it in pieces and began to eat it.

Therefore let us keep our festival not with old yeast nor with the yeast of what is evil and mischievous, but with bread free from yeast--the bread of transparent sincerity and of truth.

The cup of blessing, which we bless, does it not mean a joint-participation in the blood of Christ? The loaf of bread which we break, does it not mean a joint-participation in the body of Christ?

For it was from the Lord that I received the facts which, in turn, I handed on to you; how that the Lord Jesus, on the night He was to be betrayed, took some bread,

For every time that you eat this bread and drink from the cup, you are proclaiming the Lord's death--until He returns.

Whoever, therefore, in an unworthy manner, eats the bread or drinks from the cup of the Lord sins against the body and blood of the Lord.

But let a man examine himself, and, having done that, then let him eat the bread and drink from the cup.

And God who continually supplies seed for the sower and bread for eating, will supply you with seed and multiply it, and will cause your almsgiving to yield a plentiful harvest.

nor did we eat any one's bread without paying for it, but we laboured and toiled, working hard night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you.

To persons of that sort our injunction--and our command by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ--is that they are to work quietly and eat their own honestly-earned bread.