One day Elisha went to Shunem, where a rich woman lived. She invited him to a meal, and from then on every time he went to Shunem he would have his meals at her house.

Well, what then? I tell you that even if he will not get up and give you the bread because you are his friend, yet he will get up and give you everything you need because you are not ashamed to keep on asking.

So the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the country roads and lanes and make people come in, so that my house will be full.

As they came near the village to which they were going, Jesus acted as if he were going farther;

but they held him back, saying, "Stay with us; the day is almost over and it is getting dark." So he went in to stay with them.

We are ruled by the love of Christ, now that we recognize that one man died for everyone, which means that they all share in his death.

Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick, take a sack of your best flour, and bake some bread."

He took some cream, some milk, and the meat, and set the food before the men. There under the tree he served them himself, and they ate.

The child grew, and on the day that he was weaned, Abraham gave a great feast.

Then Levi had a big feast in his house for Jesus, and among the guests was a large number of tax collectors and other people.

They prepared a dinner for him there, which Martha helped serve; Lazarus was one of those who were sitting at the table with Jesus.

Remember to welcome strangers in your homes. There were some who did that and welcomed angels without knowing it.

Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick, take a sack of your best flour, and bake some bread."

The LORD said, "For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast---eat only unleavened bread. On the first day you are to get rid of all the yeast in your houses, for if anyone during those seven days eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people.

They baked unleavened bread from the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for they had been driven out of Egypt so suddenly that they did not have time to get their food ready or to prepare leavened dough.

So Gideon went into his house and cooked a young goat and used a bushel of flour to make bread without any yeast. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, brought them to the LORD's angel under the oak tree, and gave them to him.

The woman quickly killed a calf which she had been fattening. Then she took some flour, prepared it, and baked some bread without yeast.

Let us celebrate our Passover, then, not with bread having the old yeast of sin and wickedness, but with the bread that has no yeast, the bread of purity and truth.