Mark 2:20

Modern English Version

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.

Cross References

Psalm 45:11

and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him.

Song of Solomon 3:11

Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and look upon King Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day of the gladness of his heart.

Isaiah 54:5

For your maker is your husband, the Lord of Hosts is His name; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He shall be called the God of the whole earth.

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God shall rejoice over you.

Zechariah 13:7

“Awake, O sword, against My shepherd and the man of My association,” says the Lord of Hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will scatter. I will turn My hand against the small ones.

Matthew 26:31

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will fall away on account of Me this night, for it is written: ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.’

Matthew 9:15

Jesus answered, “Can the guests of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.

Mark 2:19

Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

Mark 2:21

“No one sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment, or else the new piece that covered it tears away from the old, and the tear is made worse.

Luke 17:22

Then He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.

Luke 5:35

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then in those days they will fast.”

John 12:8

For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”

John 13:33

“Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek Me. And as I said to the Jews, so now I tell you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

John 16:28

I came from the Father and have come into the world. As I said, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father.”

John 16:7

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send Him to you.

John 17:11

I am to be no longer in the world, though these are in the world, for I am coming to You. Holy Father, through Your name keep those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are one.

John 17:13

“But now I am coming to You, and I say these things in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.

John 3:29

He who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled.

Acts 1:9

When He had spoken these things, while they looked, He was taken up. And a cloud removed Him from their sight.

Acts 14:23

When they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they believed.

Acts 3:21

whom the heavens must receive until the time of restoring what God spoke through all His holy prophets since the world began.

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you for lack of self-control.

2 Corinthians 11:2

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:27

in weariness and painfulness, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

2 Corinthians 6:5

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, and in hunger;

Revelation 19:7

Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.

Revelation 21:9

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came to me and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”