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Verb trephō (to feed) in the Gospels-Acts
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Matthew
| 6: 26 | Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds (trephō) them. Are you not of more value than they? |
| 25: 37 | Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and fed (trephō) you, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? |
Luke
| 4: 16 | When he came to Nazareth, where he had been fed (trephō) [i.e. brought up], he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, |
| 12: 24 | Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds (trephō) them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! |
| 23: 29 | For the days are surely coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never fed (trephō).' |
Acts
| 12: 20 | Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him in a body; and after winning over Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for a reconciliation, because their country depended on the king's country to be fed (trephō). |
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