- Conforming to dietary laws; ritually pure.
- Selling or serving food prepared in accordance with dietary laws.
- Legitimate; permissible.
- Genuine; authentic.
And when I looked up this in the dictionary, I am only showing you the definition according to the Jews. The slang use is also the same as the Jewish use (partly), and only applies to the last two definitions.
In this study, I am looking at the word "eat" and just in the New Testament, there are 150 verses that use this word in one form or another. That's just the NT, which by volume is roughly a third of the length of the Old Testament. So how many verses in the Old Testament? Multiply it by three and it still isn't enough. Close though, with 467 in the OT totalling 617 in the entire Bible (I used the NIV for this search - other Bibles will vary in one way or another). The NIV doesn't use the word kosher, however. It does, however, spell out the Jewish Laws for eating.
I've decided that this is going to be a bit of a little series, just because it is interesting and I can. I'm going to approach this differently than other things I have done in the past, just to shake things up a little.
The verses in the Book of Matthew (18 verses):
- "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?" (6:25)
- "So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'" (6:31)
- When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" (9:11)
- For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.' The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and "sinners." ' But wisdom is proved right by her actions." (11:18-19)
- At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. (12:1)
- Jesus replied, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat." (15:2)
- "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!" (15:20)
- "Yes, Lord," she said, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." (15:27)
- Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way." (15:32)
- For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; (24:38)
- And he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. (24:49)
- For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in. (25:35)
- For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink. (25:42)
- On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?" (26:17)
- And while they were eating, he said, "I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me." (26:21)
- While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take and eat; this is my body." (26:26)
O, this is going to be enlighting to me, I can already tell. What's fascinating is how food and eating are tied to everything. I'll elaborate more on this as I go along, but really, it is pretty clear in the scriptures in Matthew.
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