Bible verse
Jesus replied, “Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them?
Luke 5:34 · BSB
The verses around it, from Luke 5.
30 But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
31 Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
33 Then they said to Him, “John’s disciples and those of the Pharisees frequently fast and pray, but Yours keep on eating and drinking.”
34 Jesus replied, “Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them?
35 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.”
36 He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will tear the new garment as well, and the patch from the new will not match the old.
37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined.
38 Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.
KJV
And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
ASV
And Jesus said unto them, Can ye make the sons of the bride-chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
ERV
And Jesus said unto them, Can ye make the sons of the bride-chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
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