'Eating' in the Bible

For John did not come eating or drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

These are the things that defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”

For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark.

While they were eating, He said, “I assure you: One of you will betray Me.”

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take and eat it; this is My body.”

When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

They observed that some of His disciples were eating their bread with unclean—that is, unwashed—hands.

Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why don’t Your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, instead of eating bread with ritually unclean hands?”

While they were reclining and eating, Jesus said, “I assure you: One of you will betray Me—one who is eating with Me!”

As they were eating, He took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is My body.”

On a Sabbath, He passed through the grainfields. His disciples were picking heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.

For John the Baptist did not come eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they offer, for the worker is worthy of his wages. Don’t be moving from house to house.

He longed to eat his fill from the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him any.

People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.

but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.

that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things.Farewell.

After going upstairs, breaking the bread, and eating, Paul conversed a considerable time until dawn. Then he left.

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

But whoever doubts stands condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from a conviction, and everything that is not from a conviction is sin.

About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

For at the meal, each one eats his own supper ahead of others. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!