Posted on 12/26/2006 6:52:21 PM PST by Yosemitest
I'm trying to find a scripture where ... either Jesus or someone else in the Bible... was called to eat at a feast. He got into a discussion with someone ... who wanted to invite a servant from another room into the feast hall to dine with them.
If my memory serves me well, Jesus or the disciple ask the other person, "Know you not that, in his land, it is a sin for him to eat with a Jew", (or us).
My memory may be playing tricks with me. (Old age)
Many thoughts come come to mind.
One moment...
My memory is probably as poor, although perhaps after the Ascension, when either Paul or one of the epistles instructs on the significance of not eating food offered to idols, or also respecting the mechanisms of diet which those not so advanced in doctrine may have respected in their traditions, so as not to cause a dissension while witnessing the Gospel or further doctrine to them. Were these the lines of your memory?
Methinks you are likely mangling thing a bit in your memory.
I migh be Peter's discusson about such things maybe in Acts.
I'm sure some hotshots hereon will help you out, in any case. I'd have to search a lot on
http://www.biblegateway.com/
to come up with an answer and some of these characters hereon can do it from memory.
Luke 7:36-50
I am not sure this is the scripture you are searching but kinda fits the outline you have given.
Mark 2:15-
Sorry, I did look on biblegateway.com and did not come up with anything. It's not something that sounds familiar to me.
The only thing that immediately comes to mind is eating with sinners.
Luke 5:27-32
Does nobody own a worn Bible anymore? Sheesh!
By the way, Luke 5:27-32 was a good guess too.
Try Galatians 2:11-
Have we been of any help?
Yes, I have many bibles, read them regularly, they are all underlined and dogeared. And I have a Strong's concordance that I have been using since 1985.
But I do like to use biblegateway sometimes too.
Blessings,
jm
The quote seems muddled. Most likely in Acts, Peter going to see the Roman centurion Cornelius, or (somewhat less likely) Peter refusing to eat w/ gentile Christians once those from the "circumcision party" arrive (which Pauls publicly admonishes him for). Somewhere in Acts, and referenced in Galatians.
Galatians 2 does sound somewhat close:
11When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong. 12Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. 13The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.
Rom 3:31 Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.
May finding this reference be your only trouble for the coming 2007.
"Christ died for our sins." As somebody [forgot who] continued, " Don't you dare to make his sacrifice meaningless by not committing them".
Revelation 2:12-17 and Revelation 2:18-29 are worth anyone's time, but that's not it either.
Paul and his foreskin again. Surely that is not what the person who asked the question had in mind.
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