While the Bible doesn't detail a complete list, Jesus, as a devout Jew, would have abstained from "unclean" foods forbidden by Old Testament law, meaning no pork, shellfish, camel, rabbit, or blood, focusing on "clean" meats like lamb, fish with fins/scales, and plant-based foods, though some scholars debate if he was even vegetarian, emphasizing he followed Jewish dietary laws (kashrut).
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].
Based on nutritional anthropology from the time, Jesus likely had a diet similar to the Mediterranean Diet today. Heavy in fruits and vegetables, lots of fish, likely poultry, and red meat in the form of lamb, which was likely most reserved for feasts like passover.
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.”
Jesus has said plainly here in our text, nothing that we eat can defile the heart. Look again at our text, Mark 7:18- 19, “Nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him unclean, for it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach and then out of his body.
In fact, he drank wine—the fermented kind, not grape juice, as some will claim—and apparently he drank a fair amount of it.
But, having tasted this vinegar mixed with gall, He realized that drinking it was something He could not do if He was to finish His work and fulfil His Father's will.
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.
(Leviticus 11:13–19). - Shellfish: Foods like shrimp and lobster are foods that the Bible says not to eat, because they don't have fins and scales. (Leviticus 11:10).
Christians may eat pork because God has declared it once more to be clean. “What God has declared clean you must not call common” (Acts 10:15). Pork is one of those “foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth” (1Timothy 4:3).
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).
Are there foods a Christian should not eat? Yes, the Bible teaches there are meats that are designated as “unclean” (or unfit) for human consumption. These meats include pork, shellfish and the meat of other specific animals, sea creatures and birds.
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).
Jesus refused to drink the wine that was intended to relieve his suffering as he wanted to experience the entirety of the punishment set out for him. He was crucified to atone for the sins of man and felt it would be unjust not to bear it in full.
Myrrh gum is commonly harvested from the species Commiphora myrrha, which is native to Yemen, Somalia, Eritrea and eastern Ethiopia. Another commonly used name, Commiphora molmol, is now considered a synonym of Commiphora myrrha.
The magi were revered as wise men and later as kings. Over time, one of the three came to be known as Balthazar and to be depicted as a Black man. Balthazar was familiar to medieval Europeans, appearing in paintings, manuscript illuminations, mosaics, carved ivories, and jewelry.
The implication is he drank before but wouldn't drink again until the kingdom's fulfillment. He doesn't make this statement to have anything to do with alcohol, good or bad. It's about celebration and instituting a New Covenant. Wine symbolizes blood and the wedding analogy Jesus spoke of at the Last Supper, as well.
In the Bible, Gall has multiple meanings and uses throughout the Old and New Testaments: Any bitter or poisonous substance, like bile ~ Job 16:13. Venom of serpents ~ Job 20:14. A bitter herb ~ Deuteronomy 29:18.
The Bible never gives detailed instructions about drinking. It does, however, give principles every Christian should consider. Bottom line: Scripture prohibits drunkenness, not drinking. If a Christian chooses to consume alcohol, they should do so with moderation and self-control.
Yes, if you mean the day on which Christians have celebrated the Lord's birth almost universally from the earliest times. However, the Church has never definitively taught that Jesus was born on December 25; there is no conclusive documentary evidence and Sacred Scripture mentions no date whatsoever.
A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! '” (Luke 7:34). A glutton, of course, is someone who eats too much, and a drunkard is someone who drinks too much. Jesus was seriously into eating and drinking—so much so that his enemies accused him of doing it to excess.