Mark 2:18-20

The Voice

¹⁸The disciples of John the Baptist and the Pharisees made a practice of fasting.

Some Jews fast twice a week and pray three times daily, but Jesus has a different set of practices for His followers. Some of the pious are disturbed by this.

Some People (to Jesus): Why is it that John’s followers and the Pharisees’ followers fast, but Your disciples are eating and drinking like it was any other day?

Jesus: ¹⁹Guests at the wedding can’t fast when the bridegroom is with them. It would be wrong to do anything but feast. ²⁰When the bridegroom is snatched away from them, then the time will come to fast and mourn.

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