"What Are We to Eat?" - "Come Take Your Breakfast"

 After Jesus was resurrected, he appeared to some of his disciples early one morning. The disciples had been fishing all night, without success. "Come, take your breakfast, "Jesus called to his tired friends. He then served them fresh fish and bread. (John 21:9-13) Although this is the only mention in the Gospels of a breakfast meal, it was common for people to begin their day with a meal of bread, nuts and raisins or olives. 

What about a midday meal? What would the working class eat? The book Life in Biblical Israel says: "The midday meal was light, composed of bread, grain, olives, and figs." Those were the items that the disciples may have well been carrying when they returned from Sychar to find Jesus talking to a Samaritan woman at the well. The hour "was about the sixth," or midday, and the disciples had "gone off into the city to buy foodstuffs." - JOHN 4:5-8. 

Next time: "Come Take Your Breakfast" - Conclusion 

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