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

Whenever you enter a town and the people welcome you, eat what is set before you.

He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples picked some heads of wheat, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

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

Then they said to him, “John’s disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours continue to eat and drink.”

Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.

But if that slave should say to himself, ‘My master is delayed in returning,’ and he begins to beat the other slaves, both men and women, and to eat, drink, and get drunk,