'Eat' in the Bible

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

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

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

When Jesus looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming toward him, he asked Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to 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 comes down from heaven, so that a person may eat it and not die.

Then the Jewish leaders debated angrily with each other, asking, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

So Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

Then Jesus was led from Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters early in the morning. The Jews did not go into the headquarters, to avoid becoming unclean and unable to eat the Passover meal.