Mark 2:20

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Luke 17:22 : 22 He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
  • Isa 54:5 : 5 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
  • Isa 62:5 : 5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
  • Zech 13:7 : 7 "Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me," says Yahweh of Armies. "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 said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'
  • Ps 45:11 : 11 So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.
  • Song 3:11 : 11 Go forth, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart. Lover
  • John 3:29 : 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
  • John 7:33-34 : 33 Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. 34 You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."
  • John 12:8 : 8 For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."
  • John 13:33 : 33 Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.
  • John 16:7 : 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
  • John 16:28 : 28 I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."
  • John 17:11 : 11 I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
  • John 17:13 : 13 But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
  • Acts 1:9 : 9 When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
  • Acts 3:21 : 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
  • Acts 13:2-3 : 2 As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them." 3 Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
  • Acts 14:23 : 23 When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
  • 1 Cor 7:5 : 5 Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  • 2 Cor 6:5 : 5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
  • 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
  • Rev 19:7 : 7 Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready."
  • Rev 21:9 : 9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb's bride."

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    33 They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"

    34 He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

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

    36 He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.

    37 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

  • Matt 9:14-16
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    14 Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"

    15 Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

    16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.

  • Mark 2:18-19
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    18 John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

    19 Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can't fast.

  • Mark 2:21-22
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    21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.

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    22 He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

  • Matt 6:16-17
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    17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;

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    10 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.

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    1 Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,

    2 "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,

    3 and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.

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    5 Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

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    18 for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until the Kingdom of God comes."

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    17 But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!

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    46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

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    36 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

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    16 Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, and the bride out of her room.

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    19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

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    34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.

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    22 For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

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    21 But this kind doesn't go out except by prayer and fasting."

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    39 and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

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    13 Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'

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    16 for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God."

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    26 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

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    40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."

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    50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it,

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    29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;