The Bible has a verse that says:
“Eat honey, for it is good”.
I think it could be found using the right search.
Proverbs - 13 “My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:”
The ancients knew that honey had health benefits. The oldest texts / scriptures mentioning this are the Vedas, 4000+ years ago.
I have had the worst cold - really awful and could not get rid of it and it got so disgusting I was off work for a week. I tried to go in one day and a co-worker, told me to drink hot tea with lemon and honey. He said to drink a lot of this.
The first night I drank 5 big cups and got way better...that was a couple of days ago and now I’m back to normal.
Who knows, maybe I’d have gotten better anyway but it sure didn’t seem like it was going to happen until I started the tea.