Mark 2:18

Easy To Read Version

The followers of John {\cf2\super [27]} and the Pharisees {\cf2\super [28]} were fasting. {\cf2\super [29]} Some people came to Jesus and said, “John’s followers fast, and the followers of the Pharisees fast. But your followers don’t fast. Why?”

Cross References

Matthew 23:5

“The only reason they do good things is for other people to see them. They wear special boxes {\cf2\super [328]} full of Scriptures. {\cf2\super [329]} They make these boxes bigger and bigger. And they make their special prayer clothes very long \{so that people will see them\}.

Matthew 6:16

“When you fast, {\cf2\super [78]} don’t make yourselves look sad. The hypocrites {\cf2\super [79]} do that. Don’t be like the hypocrites. They make their faces look strange to show people that they are fasting. I tell you the truth, those hypocrites already have their full reward.

Matthew 6:18

Then people will not know that you are fasting. But your Father that you cannot see will see you. Your Father sees the things that are done in secret. And he will reward you.

Mark 2:19

Jesus answered, “\{When there is a wedding,\} the friends of the bridegroom {\cf2\super [30]} are not sad while he is with them. They cannot fast {\cf2\super [31]} (be sad) while the bridegroom is still there.

Luke 18:12

\{I am good;\} I fast {\cf2\super [287]} twice a week, and I give one-tenth of everything I earn!’

Romans 10:3

They did not know the way that God makes people right with him. And they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.