'Eating' in the Bible

This led the Pharisees and Scribes of their party to expostulate with His disciples and ask, "Why are you eating and drinking with these tax-gatherers and notorious sinners?"

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

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Look, there is a man who is overfond of eating and drinking--he is a friend of tax-gatherers and notorious sinners!'

And in that same house stay, eating and drinking at their table; for the labourer deserves his wages. Do not move from one house to another.

and he longed to make a hearty meal of the pods the swine were eating, but no one gave him any.

Men were eating and drinking, taking wives and giving wives, up to the very day on which Noah entered the Ark, and the Deluge came and destroyed them all.

The same was true in the time of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building;