Mark 2:19
Good News Translation
Jesus answered, "Do you expect the guests at a wedding party to go without food? Of course not! As long as the bridegroom is with them, they will not do that.

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus answered: The friends of a bridegroom don't go without eating while he is still with them.

New American Bible
Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus saith to them: Can the children of the marriage fast, as long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Jesus saith to them: Can the children of the marriage fast, as long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

Can.

Genesis 29:22 And he, having invited a great number of his friends to the feast, made the marriage.

Judges 14:10,11 So his father went down to the woman, and made a feast for his son Samson: for so the young men used to do. . . .

Psalm 45:14 Clothed round about with varieties. After her shall virgins be brought to the king: her neighbours shall be brought to thee.

Songs 6:8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.

Matthew 25:1-10 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride. . . .

Context
Questions about Fasting
18And the disciples of John and the Pharisees used to fast. And they come and say to him: Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast; but thy disciples do not fast? 19And Jesus saith to them: Can the children of the marriage fast, as long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them: and then they shall fast in those days.…
Cross References
Matthew 9:15
And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.

Mark 2:18
And the disciples of John and the Pharisees used to fast. And they come and say to him: Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast; but thy disciples do not fast?

Mark 2:20
But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them: and then they shall fast in those days.

Mark 2:18
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