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Why Do Your Disciples Not Fast? The Bridegroom Is Here. New Wineskins

33 And the ones said to Him, “The disciples of John are fasting[a] frequently and making prayers. Likewise also the ones of the Pharisees. But Yours are eating and drinking”. 34 And Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the sons[b] of the wedding-hall fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? 35 But days will come. And when the bridegroom is taken-away from them, then they will fast in those days”.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 5:33 On why these two groups may have been fasting, see Mt 9:14.
  2. Luke 5:34 That is, the attendants of the groom; the groomsmen.

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