Luke 5:35
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”
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In Context
34He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?
Cross References
Daniel 9:26After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.
Matthew 6:17But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
Luke 24:17He said to them, “What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?”
John 13:33Little 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 16:4But I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
John 16:28I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go 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 →