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Luke 5:34
And Jesus said, Are you able to make the friends of the newly-married man go without food when he is with them?
Luke 5:34 · Bible in Basic English
Luke 5:34 in other translations
And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
Jesus replied, “Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them?
He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?
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In context
31 And Jesus, answering, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.
32 I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.
33 And they said to him, The disciples of John frequently go without food, and make prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your disciples take food and drink.
34 And Jesus said, Are you able to make the friends of the newly-married man go without food when he is with them?
35 But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.
36 And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.
37 And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins, for fear that the skins will be burst by the new wine, and the wine be let out, and the skins come to destruction.
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