'Eat' in the Bible

Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus. "Rabbi," they said, "eat something."

"I have food to eat," He replied, "of which you do not know."

So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"

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?"

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

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

This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?"

"In most solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no Life in you.

So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium. It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they might be able to eat the Passover.