Jesus ate common foods of his time, including fish (especially from the Sea of Galilee) and lamb (likely for Passover), along with bread, vegetables, and fruits, adhering to Jewish dietary laws (Kosher) and living a simple diet typical for a Galilean, with meat being a rarer, costlier addition. Biblical accounts show him eating fish after his resurrection and mention Passover lamb, while his location near the fishing-rich Galilee made fish a staple protein.
To answer your question no Jesus did not eat pork, Jesus stated He came to fulfill the law, the only man ever to be able to do that without slipping. The New Testament, what God calls the new covenant.
The Bible records Jesus eating fish (Luke 24:42-43) and lamb (Luke 22:8-15). Jesus miraculously fed the crowds fish and bread, a strange thing for Him to do if He was a vegetarian (Matthew 14:17-21). In a vision to the apostle Peter, Jesus declared all foods to be clean, including animals (Acts 10:10-15).
Many Christians readily assert that Jesus ate meat. Yet there isn't one instance in which he ate meat recorded in the Bible or other historical texts. Historians have frequently noted that Jesus' brother James was a vegetarian and had been raised vegetarian.
God states that cud-chewing animals with split hooves can be eaten (Leviticus 11:3; Deuteronomy 14:6). These specifically include the cattle, sheep, goat, deer and gazelle families (Deuteronomy 14:4-5). He also lists such animals as camels, rabbits and pigs as being unclean, or unfit to eat (Leviticus 11:4-8).
- Rabbits: Bunnies were considered unclean or a food the Bible says not to eat. Even though they or chewed the cud, they didn't have split hooves (Leviticus 11:6). - Most insects: Though locusts and crickets were considered clean, most other bugs fall into the category of foods the Bible says not to eat.
He also lists such animals as camels, rabbits and pigs as being unclean, or unfit to eat (Leviticus 11:4-8). He later lists such "creeping things" as moles, mice and lizards as unfit to eat (verses 29-31), as well as four-footed animals with paws (cats, dogs, bears, lions, tigers, etc.) as unclean (verse 27).
To be specific, Jesus drank water and wine, ate only whole grain bread, abstained from pork and shellfish, and ate large quantities of healthy foods like olive oil, grapes, figs, pomegranates, various kinds of vegetables, and fish. This is “the Jesus way of eating” [p. xv].
The drink offered to our Lord was vinegar (made of light wine rendered acid, the common drink of Roman soldiers) "mingled with gall," or, according to ( Mark 15:23 ), "mingled with myrrh;" both expressions meaning the same thing, namely, that the vinegar was made bitter by the infusion of wormwood or some other bitter ...
“He really likes fish. In fact, He cooked fish for us disciples at the shore of Galilee soon after His resurrection.” “That's right,” said James and John the Sons of Thunder, “We were there and ate fish with Him for breakfast.”
In Judaism, horse meat is considered “impure”. For Christians, however, the roots of this prohibition go back to the 8th century, when Gregory III, following the victory of Charles Martel in the Battle of Poitiers, banned the consumption of horse meat.
Chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, quail and pheasants do not appear on this list of unclean birds and are considered clean—okay for us to eat. Most insects are not good to eat, but God says some insects, such as locusts, grasshoppers and crickets, are okay to eat (Leviticus 11:22).
“The historical Jesus would have completely rejected the casual torture and killing of animals.” What does this imply about Jesus' practice of compassion? Definitions of veganism vary, but the basic concept is not to kill or harm any sentient creature, especially for food.
All of the questions concerning eating shrimp today stem from the law in Leviticus that forbids eating any sea creatures that do not have fins and scales. However, this law doesn't apply to Christians under the New Covenant.
It is only in Leviticus 11:7 that eating pork is forbidden to God's people for the very first time—“… and the swine, though it divides the hoof, having cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.” This is where and when pork in all its forms (including ham, bacon, sausage, etc.)
The only dietary restrictions specified for Christians in the New Testament are to "abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meat of strangled animals" (Acts 15:29), teachings that the early Church Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen, preached for believers to follow.
Jesus most willingly drank and drained to the bitter last dregs the bitter cup of suffering that the Father put to His lips, but He refused to drink that sour wine mingled with gall that the soldiers brought to His holy and precious lips. Why? Remember that the bitter gall/ myrrh is a pain killing narcotic.
Mark 15:23 "And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not." About myrrh is called "gall" (original word: χολή (about taste)), probably same word was used in Aramaic. In Arabic مُرّ (murr) means "bitter" but مُرّ also means "myrrh".
Matthew 25:40 means that acts of kindness, compassion, and service shown to people in need—the hungry, thirsty, strangers, naked, sick, or imprisoned—are seen by Jesus as acts done directly to Him, revealing one's true faith and relationship with Him, as He identifies fully with "the least of these my brothers" (and sisters). This verse, part of the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, highlights that true faith is demonstrated through tangible love for others, especially the marginalized, and serves as the basis for final judgment.
And seeing this, the disciples marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?” (Matthew 21:18-20. All quotations are from the NASB.) The literal action of the passage is this: Jesus is hungry, and when he does not find figs on the tree, he curses it. Apparently, he curses the tree out of anger.
For flavorings, there was mustard(Remember, Jesus' parable of the mustard seed in Mark 4:31), and dill, cumin, cinnamon, mint, and salt are also mentioned in the Bible. For drinking, Jesus probably drank water, wine, and milk (from goats and sheep).
God's covenant people, Israel, were given a unique calling to be set apart from the nations around them. The ceremonial laws, including many dietary laws, were symbolic expressions of this set-apartness. All commentators agree that the restrictions on shellfish and mixed fabrics were part of the ceremonial category.
Clean Protein Sources: Leviticus 11 outlines which animals are considered clean (fit for consumption) and unclean. Clean animals typically have split hooves and chew cud (e.g., cattle, sheep, goats) or fins and scales (e.g., fish like salmon, trout).
The people of Israel were commanded in their law to never eat pork, but the nation disobeyed the Lord nonetheless. Because of their disobedience under the Law, the Lord promises to prevent them from receiving their Messiah for a time, while the Gospel goes to the Gentiles.
Additionally, the Tanakh: A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures According to the Traditional Hebrew Text has the “white owl” or “little owl,” not “swan.” There is no mention of swans, geese or ducks as being unclean.