Mark 2:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Jesus 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.

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  • Gen 29:22 : 22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast.
  • Judg 14:10-11 : 10 So his father went down to the woman, and Samson made there a feast, for so the young men used to do. 11 And it happened, when they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
  • Matt 25:1-9 : 1 Then the kingdom of heaven shall be compared to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them. 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 While the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. 6 And at midnight a cry was made: Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him. 7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out. 9 But the wise answered, saying, No, lest there not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves. 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was shut.
  • Ps 45:14 : 14 She shall be brought to the king in robes of needlework: the virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
  • Song 6:8 : 8 There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

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    14Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees often fast, but your disciples do not fast?

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    33And they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but yours eat and drink?

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

    36And he spoke also a parable to them: No one puts a piece of a new garment on an old one; otherwise, the new makes a tear, and the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.

    37And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined.

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    20But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.

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