From Nave’s Topical Bible
Hunger
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 15Passages listed
- 9Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Of JesusMatthew 4:2–4Matthew 21:18Mark 11:12Luke 4:2–4John 4:8
- A stimulus to workProverbs 16:26
- No hunger in heavenRevelation 7:16Revelation 7:17
- See Famine
- SPIRITUALProverbs 2:3–5Isaiah 55:1Isaiah 55:2Amos 8:11–13Matthew 5:6Luke 6:211 Peter 2:2
- See Desire, Spiritual
- See Thirst
The passages, in Bible order (15)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 15 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Proverbs 2:3–5
if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,
Commentary on Proverbs 2:3–51 voice
God's wisdom … [works] "in many forms and many ways" through technical skill, scientific knowledge, faith, prophecy; it shows us its power to our benefit, because "all wisdom comes from the Lord and is with him to all eternity," as the wisdom of Jesus puts it. "For if you call for practical wisdom and perception at the top of your voice, if you seek it as you would a treasure of silver, and if you track it down ardently, then you will realize the meaning of reverence for God and you will grasp the perception of God."
Clement of Alexandria· The Stromata Book 1, 215Patristic
- Proverbs 16:26
A worker’s appetite works for him because his hunger drives him onward.
Commentary on Proverbs 16:261 voice
The soul of the laborer labors for itself, etc. It is evident, according to the letter, that man expelled from paradise exercises daily labor so that he may not lack. For he compelled his mouth, when he spoke with the serpent and touched the forbidden …
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735Patristic
- Isaiah 55:1
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
Commentary on Isaiah 55:11 voice
(Chapter 55, Verse 1) All you who are thirsty, come to the waters, and you who have no money, hurry and buy and eat; come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? LXX: You who are thirsty, go to the water, and you who have no money, go, buy and eat, and walk, and buy wine and fat without money and without price. Why do you spend money, and your labor not for satisfaction?
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Isaiah 55:2
Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.
Commentary on Isaiah 55:21 voice
(Verse 2, 3.) Hear me, you who listen, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in abundance. Incline your ear and come to me; listen, and your soul will live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David. And I will establish for you an everlasting covenant, holy and faithful to David. Lest anyone think these are hearsay of the flesh, not of the mind, to whom the divine word encourages them to listen, promising them not the goods of the flesh but of the soul.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Amos 8:11–13
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
Commentary on Amos 8:11–131 voice
(Verse 11, 12) Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send forth (Vulgate: send) a famine upon the land: not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord. And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. In that day, the fair virgins and young men shall faint for thirst.
Jerome· Commentary on Amos, 420Patristic
- Matthew 4:2–4
After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
Commentary on Matthew 4:2–41 voice
For the number "forty days" is composed of four groups of ten. This may be akin to the four aspects of physical reality, because the sensible world is formed out of four elements. Or it may be because a human being is formed in forty days in the womb. And so that he might not, by fasting any longer than this, give anyone the notion that he had not taken on flesh in truth, he afterward was hungry, sharing all that we have "except for sin" and participating in our condition through his own suffering.
Origen of Alexandria· FRAGMENT 61.12, 253Patristic
- Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Commentary on Matthew 5:61 voice
(ubi sup.) As soon as I have wept for my sins, I begin to hunger and thirst after righteousness. He who is afflicted with any sore disease, hath no hunger.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 397Patristic
- Matthew 21:18
In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, He was hungry.
Commentary on Matthew 21:181 voice
(Verse 18) But when he returned to the city in the morning, he was hungry. After the darkness of the night had dispersed, as the morning light shone and midday approached, during which the Lord was going to illuminate the world by means of his passion, when he returned to the city, he was hungry. Whether to reveal the truth of his human flesh or to hunger for the salvation of believers and to burn with incredulity towards the Jews.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
- Mark 11:12
The next day, when they had left Bethany, Jesus was hungry.
Commentary on Mark 11:121 voice
It may perhaps be said, `We find Him giving way to weeping, to hunger and thirst: must we not suppose Him liable to all the other affections of human nature?' But if we do not understand the mystery of His tears, hunger, and thirst, let us remember that He Who wept also raised the dead to life: that He did not weep for the death of Lazarus, but rejoiced; that He Who thirsted, gave from Himself rivers of living water. He could not be parched with thirst, if He was able to give the thirsty drink.
Hilary of Poitiers· ON THE TRINITY 10.24, 367Patristic
- Luke 4:2–4
where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.
Commentary on Luke 4:2–42 voices
But mark the mystical number of days. For you remember that for forty days the waters of the deep were poured forth, and by sanctifying a fast of that number of days, He brings before us the returning mercies of a calmer sky. By a fast of so many days also, Moses earned for himself the understanding of the law. Our fathers being for so many years settled in the wilderness, obtained the food of Angels.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 397Patristic
He was led therefore into the wilderness, to the intent that He might provoke the devil, for if the one had not contended, the other it seems had not conquered. In a mystery, it was to deliver that Adam from exile who was cast out of Paradise into the wilderness. By way of example, it was to show us that the devil envies us, whenever we strive after better things; and that then we must use caution, lest the weakness of our minds should lose us the grace of the mystery.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 397Patristic
- Luke 6:21
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
Commentary on Luke 6:211 voice
Purify yourself with your tears. Wash yourselves with mourning. If you weep for yourself, another will not weep for you.… One who is a sinner weeps for himself and rebukes himself, that he may become righteous, for just people accuse themselves of sin. Let us pursue order, because it is written, "Set in order love in me." I have laid down sin. I have tempered my conduct. I have wept for my transgressions. I begin to hunger. I hunger for righteousness. The sick, when he is seriously ill, does not hunger, because the pain of the illness excludes hunger.
Ambrose of Milan· Commentary on Luke, 397Patristic
- John 4:8
(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
Commentary on John 4:81 voice
Christ had the opportunity to ask this of the woman because his disciples, whom he would have asked for the water, were not there, thus the Evangelist says, His disciples had gone to the town. Here we might notice three things about Christ. First, his …
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on John, 1274Patristic
- 1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
- Revelation 7:16
‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’
Commentary on Revelation 7:161 voice
They will neither hunger nor thirst anymore. This is what the Lord himself promised: "I am," he says, "the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst" (John VI). For blessed are those who hunger …
Bede· Commentary on Revelation, 735Patristic
- Revelation 7:17
For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
Commentary on Revelation 7:171 voice
"Everlasting joy," says Isaiah, "shall be upon their heads." Well, there is nothing eternal until after the resurrection. "And sorrow and sighing," he continues, "shall flee away." The angel echoes the same to John: "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes"; from the same eyes indeed that had formerly wept and that might weep again, if the lovingkindness of God did not dry up every fountain of tears.
Tertullian· ON THE RESURRECTION OF THE FLESH 58, 220Patristic