BREAD

(See also Manna; Memorial [Lord’s Evening Meal]; Showbread)

Bible times: it-1 363; w92 9/1 24-25

baked on way into exile: it-1 995; w07 6/1 10; w88 9/1 27

baking: it-1 243, 843; w14 6/1 9

cakes: it-1 387-388

Jesus’ day: w09 8/1 19-20

kneading trough: it-2 179

leaven: it-2 229-230, 1008

loaves: it-2 259

milling flour: it-2 403; w15 7/1 15; w14 6/1 9; nwt 1704; w04 9/15 21-23

sourdough: it-2 1008

“bread for this day” (Mt 6:11; Lu 11:3): w15 6/15 26-27; w14 6/1 7; g 2/12 13; w10 10/1 8; w09 2/15 17-18; w09 8/1 19-20; w04 2/1 13-14; w04 9/15 6; w99 1/15 14; w90 5/15 17-18; w87 7/15 18

“bread from heaven” (Ps 105:40): w86 2/15 16-18

“bread of powerful ones” (Ps 78:25): it-2 309-310; w06 7/15 11; w99 8/15 25

“breaking bread”: it-2 280

complexity: w08 8/15 13-14

discussion: w14 6/1 7-9; g92 12/8 26-27

fermented wheat-dough bread:

origin: w86 2/15 16

illustration of father not giving a stone when asked for bread (Mt 7): w90 5/15 14-15

“meaning of the loaves” (Mr 6:52): w24.12 5; jy 131; w08 2/15 29; gt chapter 53

recipe: g92 12/8 27

symbolic: it-1 363-364

“bread from heaven” (Joh 6): w24.12 5-13; it-1 364; it-2 310; jy 132-134; ia 188-190; w10 1/1 24-25; w99 8/15 27; gt chapters 54-55; rs 342; w88 2/1 30-31; w87 10/1 8-9; w87 10/15 8-9; w86 2/15 15-20

“bread of life” (Joh 6:35, 48): w24.12 7; it-1 364; w14 6/1 8-9; w86 2/15 15-20

two loaves offered during Festival of Weeks (Pentecost): w07 1/1 21-22