Topic
Supper
3 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Mark 6:21Easton
And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;
- John 12:2Easton
There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
- 1 Corinthians 11:21Easton
For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 3 references
The principal meal of the day among the Jews. It was partaken of in the early part of the evening (Mark 6:21; John 12:2; 1 Cor. 11:21). (See LORD’S SUPPER.)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
sup'-er.
See MEALS.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.