Luke 5:35

But days are coming when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then, in those days, they will fast.”

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

34So He said to them: “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?

36Then He also told them a parable: “No one puts a patch from a new garment on an old one; otherwise, both the new makes a tear and that from the new does not match the old.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:17But when you fast anoint your head and wash your face,

Luke 24:17So He said to them, “What words are these that you are exchanging with one another as you walk, and are gloomy?”

John 13:33“Little children, I am with you just a little longer. You will look for me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I say to you.

John 16:4Now I have told you these things so that when the time comes you may remember that I told you about them; I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

John 16:28I did come forth from the Father and have come into the world. I am leaving the world again and am going to the Father.”

Matthew Henry on Luke 5:28-39

The Call of Matthew; Watchfulness Inculcated. 27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. 28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him. 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. 30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 31 And Jesus answering… Read the whole commentary →

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