# General Information:

It was a custom in that time for onlookers to attend dinners without eating.

# Connecting Statement:

A Pharisee invites Jesus to eat at his house.

# Now one of the Pharisees

The marks the beginning of a new part of the story and introduces the Pharisee into the story. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-newevent]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/writing-participants]])

# reclined at the table to eat

"sat down at the table for the meal." It was the custom at a relaxed meal such as this dinner for men to eat while lying down comfortably around the table.