Luke 5:33-35

Contemporary English Version

People Ask about Going without Eating

(Matthew 9.14-17; Mark 2.18-22)

³³ Some people said to Jesus, “John's followers often pray and go without eating,^[a] and so do the followers of the Pharisees. But your disciples never go without eating or drinking.”

³⁴ Jesus told them, “The friends of a bridegroom don't go without eating while he is still with them. ³⁵ But the time will come when he will be taken from them. Then they will go without eating.”