Bible Verses About Bread

Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead: let the tire of thy head be upon thee, and thy shoes on thy feet, and cover not thy face, nor eat the meat of mourners.

So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening: and I did in the morning as he had commanded me.

And the people said to me: Why dost thou not tell us what these things mean that thou doest?

And I said to them: The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Speak to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will profane my sanctuary, the glory of your realm, and the thing that your eyes desire, and for which your soul feareth: your sons, and your daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.

And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your faces, nor shall you eat the meat of mourners.

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.

The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.

Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he himself was heated as a flaming fire.

They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings have fallen: there is none amongst them that calleth unto me.

And when he had commanded the multitude to sit down upon the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what remained, twelve full baskets of fragments.

And the number of them that did eat, was five thousand men, besides women and children.

And Jesus said to them: How many loaves have you? But they said: Seven, and a few little fishes.

And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground.

And taking the seven loaves and the fishes, and giving thanks, he brake, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples gave to the people.

And they did all eat, and had their fill. And they took up seven baskets full, of what remained of the fragments.

For the bread of God is that which cometh down from heaven and giveth life to the world.

They said therefore unto him: Lord, give us always this bread.

And Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall not hunger: and he that believeth in me shall never thirst.

For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread,

And giving thanks, broke and said: Take ye and eat: This is my body, which shall be delivered for you. This do for the commemoration of me.