Luke 5:33
“John’s disciples,” they said to Jesus, “Often fast and say prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, while yours are eating and drinking!”
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In Context
32I have not come to call the religious, but the outcast, to repent.”
34But Jesus answered them, “Can you make the groom’s friends fast while the groom is with them?
Cross References
Zechariah 7:6When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Matthew 9:14Then John’s disciples came to Jesus, and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast while your disciples do not?”
Mark 2:18Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and people came and asked Jesus, “Why is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, while yours do not?”
Luke 7:34and now that the Son of Man has come, eating and drinking, you are saying ‘Here is a glutton and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax collectors and outcasts.’
Luke 18:12I fast twice a week, and give a tenth of everything I get to God.’
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 →