Mark 2:20

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'But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.'

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  • Luke 17:22 : 22 Then he said to the disciples, 'The days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.'
  • Isa 54:5 : 5 For your Maker is your husband—the Lord of Hosts is His name. Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of all the earth.
  • Isa 62:5 : 5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
  • Zech 13:7 : 7 Awake, O sword, against My shepherd and against the man who is My companion, declares the LORD of hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
  • Matt 26:31 : 31 Then Jesus told them, "This very night you will all fall away on account of Me, for it is written: 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'
  • Ps 45:11 : 11 Listen, daughter, consider and incline your ear; forget your people and your father's house.
  • Song 3:11 : 11 Come out, daughters of Zion, and look at King Solomon wearing the crown his mother placed on him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.
  • John 3:29 : 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and listens to him, rejoices greatly at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore, this joy of mine is now complete.
  • John 7:33-34 : 33 Then Jesus said, 'I will be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.' 34 You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.'
  • John 12:8 : 8 "For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have Me."
  • John 13:33 : 33 'Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you: Where I am going, you cannot come.'
  • John 16:7 : 7 But I tell you the truth: It is for your benefit that I am going away. If I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
  • John 16:28 : 28 I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.
  • John 17:11 : 11 I will no longer be in the world, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
  • John 17:13 : 13 But now I am coming to You, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.
  • Acts 1:9 : 9 After He had said this, He was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud hid Him from their sight.
  • Acts 3:21 : 21 Heaven must receive Him until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God spoke about through the holy prophets from ages past.
  • Acts 13:2-3 : 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, 'Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.' 3 Then, after fasting and praying, they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
  • Acts 14:23 : 23 They appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
  • 1 Cor 7:5 : 5 Do not deprive one another, except by mutual agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  • 2 Cor 6:5 : 5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in sleepless nights, in hunger;
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
  • 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 I have labored and toiled and often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.
  • Rev 19:7 : 7 Let us rejoice and be glad, and give Him glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has prepared herself.
  • Rev 21:9 : 9 Then one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke to me, saying, 'Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.'

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  • Luke 5:33-37
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    33Then they said to Him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?"

    34Jesus replied, "Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?

    35But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.

    36Then He told them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new garment and sews it onto an old garment. Otherwise, the new garment will be torn, and the patch from the new will not match the old."

    37And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, it will spill out, and the skins will be ruined.

  • Matt 9:14-16
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    14Then the disciples of John came to him and asked, 'Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?'

    15Jesus answered them, 'Can the wedding guests mourn while the bridegroom is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.'

    16No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth, because the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.

  • Mark 2:18-19
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    18Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and people came and asked Jesus, 'Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but your disciples do not fast?

    19Jesus said to them, 'Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.'

  • Mark 2:21-22
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    21'No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear becomes worse.'

    22'And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the wineskins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins.'

  • Luke 17:22
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    22Then he said to the disciples, 'The days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.'

  • Matt 6:16-17
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    16When you fast, do not look somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly, I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

    17But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,

  • Matt 25:10
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    10While they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom came. Those who were ready went with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.

  • Matt 22:1-4
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    1Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:

    2The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.

    3He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding, but they refused to come.

    4Again, he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited: Look, I have prepared my banquet; my oxen and fattened animals have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.'

  • Matt 25:5-6
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    5When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

    6At midnight, there was a cry: ‘Look, the bridegroom is coming! Go out to meet him!’

  • Luke 20:34
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    34Jesus replied to them, 'The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.

  • Luke 22:18
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    18For I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.

  • Isa 58:3
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    3'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?' Yet on the day of your fasting, you pursue your own desires and oppress all your workers.

  • Matt 26:29
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    29I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine now until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom."

  • John 3:29
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    29The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and listens to him, rejoices greatly at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore, this joy of mine is now complete.

  • Matt 22:11
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    11But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

  • Jer 16:9
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    9For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to silence in this place—in your sight and in your days—the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bridegroom and the bride.

  • Matt 25:1
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    1Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

  • Mark 13:17
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    17How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!

  • Luke 12:46
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    46the master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the unfaithful.

  • Luke 12:36
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    36Be like people waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can immediately open the door for him.

  • Joel 2:16
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    16Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out from his chamber and the bride from her wedding canopy.

  • Matt 24:19
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    19Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

  • Jer 7:34
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    34I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and groom, in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.

  • Luke 21:22
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    22For these are days of vengeance, so that all that is written may be fulfilled.

  • Matt 17:21
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    21'However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.'

  • Matt 24:39
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    39and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

  • Matt 22:13
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    13Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him out into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

  • Matt 22:8
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    8Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those invited were not worthy.'

  • Mark 14:25
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    25Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."

  • Matt 19:10
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    10The disciples said to him, "If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry."

  • Jer 25:10
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    10I will banish from them the sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the bride, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.

  • Luke 22:16
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    16For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God."

  • Matt 24:37
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    37As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

  • Luke 17:26
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    26Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

  • Luke 12:40
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    40You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.

  • Matt 24:50
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    50The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of.

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29This is what I mean, brothers and sisters: The time is short. From now on, those who have wives should live as if they do not.