Mark 2:18

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The followers of John and the Pharisees were fasting. 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

Luke 18:12

I fast twice a week, and I give a tenth of everything I get!’

Matthew 6:18

Then no one will know you are fasting, except your Father, who is with you even in private. He can see what is done in private, and he will reward you.

Matthew 6:16

“When you fast, don’t make yourselves look sad like the hypocrites. They put a look of suffering on their faces so that people will see they are fasting. The truth is, that’s all the reward they will get.

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.

Matthew 23:5

“The only reason they do what they do is for other people to see them. They make the little Scripture boxes they wear bigger and bigger. And they make the tassels on their prayer clothes long enough for people to notice them.

Mark 2:19

Jesus answered, “At a wedding the friends of the bridegroom are not sad while he is with them. They cannot fast while the bridegroom is still there.