Luke 5:33
Again they said unto him. "Why do the disciples of Johnfast frequently, and make supplications, as also do the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples are eating and drinking?"
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
32I am not come to call the righteous but sinners, to repentance."
34"Can you make the bridal party fast," he asked, while the bridegroom is still with them?
Cross References
Matthew 9:14At that time the disciples of Johncame and asked him, "Why are we and the Pharisees always fasting, while your disciples are not?"
Mark 2:18Now the disciples of Johnand the Pharisees were keeping a fast, and people came to ask him, "How is it that the disciples of Johnand the Pharisees are fasting, but your disciples are not?"
Luke 7:34"The son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!’
Luke 18:12"‘I fast twice a week, I pay tithes of all my possessions.’
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 →