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Mark 2:20
But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
Mark 2:20 · Berean Standard Bible
Mark 2:20 in other translations
But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in those days.
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In context
17 On hearing this, Jesus told them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
18 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were often fasting. So people came to Jesus and asked, “Why don’t Your disciples fast like John’s disciples and those of the Pharisees?”
19 Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them? As long as He is with them, they cannot fast.
20 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
21 No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and a worse tear will result.
22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.”
23 One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain as they walked along.
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