23 Bible Verses about People Eating
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continue in the same house, and eat and drink whatever it affords: for a labourer deserves his wages: therefore don't shift from family to family.
when you come to any city, where they receive you, eat without scruple, whatever food is set before you,
if any of the unbelievers invite you to an entertainment, and you are disposed to go; whatever is set before you, eat, without asking any question out of a scruple of conscience.
and were filled: and they carried away twelve baskets full of fragments that were left.
so that they all eat, and were satiated: the superfluous fragments they carried off, amounting to seven baskets full:
so they all eat and were satisfied, the broken meat that was left amounting to seven baskets.
and tho' they all eat sufficiently, there was a surplusage of twelve baskets full of fragments carried away.
now they that had eaten, were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
though the guests were to the number of four thousand men, beside women and children.
and as they were eating, he said, 'tis indeed true that one of this company shall betray me.
After this they went into an house, and the crowd press'd again upon them, so as to hinder them from taking their meal.
there came other barks from Tiberias, nigh the place where they had eaten bread, after the Lord had given thanks.)
Jesus answered them, I declare unto you, you seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye had loaves to eat, and were filled.
come, said Jesus, let us dine. but none of the disciples offer'd to ask him, who he was; for they saw well enough that it was the Lord.
and when he had taken some food, he was refresh'd. after which Saul staid some time with the disciples at Damascus.
then Jesus said to them, come, let us retire privately to some place of solitude, to repose your selves a while. for such a crowd of people were continually coming and going, that they had not even time to eat.
pursuant to the maxim, which we laid down, when among you, "he that refuses to work should be deny'd food."
