Mark 2:20

but the days shall come when the bridegroom shall be taken up from them: then shall they fast in those days.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

19Jeshu said to them, Can the sons of the marriage-chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? No;

21No man inserteth a new piece, and seweth it upon an old vestment; lest that new should take away its fulness from the old, and make the rent the greater.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:31THEN said Jeshu unto them, You all shall be offended in me this night; for it is written, I will strike the shepherd, and scattered shall be the sheep of his flock.

John 3:29He that hath the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and attendeth him, with great joy rejoiceth on account of the voice of the bridegroom: this my joy therefore, behold, is complete.

John 12:8In all time the poor you have with you; but me you have not at all time.

John 16:7But I the truth say to you, That it is needful for you that I go; for if I go not, the Paraclete cometh not to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

Matthew Henry on Mark 2:19-28

The Hypocritical Rigour of the Pharisees. 18 And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? 19 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. 21 No… Read the whole commentary →

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