Lexicon :: Strong's G2068 - esthiō

When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners? ”

“For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon! ’

At that time Jesus passed through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick and eat some heads of grain.

Now those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”[fn]

“Yes, Lord,” she said, “yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”

Now there were four thousand men who had eaten, besides women and children.

“and starts to beat his fellow servants, and eats and drinks with drunkards,

While they were eating, he said, “Truly I tell 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.”

John wore a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.

When the scribes who were Pharisees[fn] saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat[fn] with tax collectors and sinners? ”

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

But she replied to him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

While they were reclining and eating, Jesus said, “Truly I tell 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.”

But the Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? ”

Then they said to him, “John’s disciples fast often and say prayers, and those of the Pharisees do the same, but yours eat and drink.”

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! ’

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

“But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

“He longed to eat his fill from[fn] the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one would give him anything.

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

“so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. And you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

After he said these things and had taken some bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all of them, and after he broke it, he began to eat.

One person believes he may eat anything, while one who is weak eats only vegetables.

Whoever observes the day, observes it for the honor of the Lord.[fn] Whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; and whoever does not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not eat it, and he gives thanks to God.

Do not tear down God’s work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong to make someone fall by what he eats.

However, not everyone has this knowledge. Some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food sacrificed to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

For if someone sees you, the one who has knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, won’t his weak conscience be encouraged[fn] to eat food offered to idols?

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?

Don’t you know that those who perform the temple services eat the food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the offerings of the altar?

Consider the people of Israel.[fn] Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, without raising questions for the sake of conscience,

If any of the unbelievers invites you over and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, without raising questions for the sake of conscience.

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

Don’t you have homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you in this matter!

For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.