Mark 2:20

New American Bible - revised edition

But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.

Cross References

Psalm 45:11

Listen, my daughter, and understand; pay me careful heed. Forget your people and your father’s house,

Song of Solomon 3:11

go out and look upon King Solomon In the crown with which his mother has crowned him on the day of his marriage, on the day of the joy of his heart.

Isaiah 54:5

For your husband is your Maker; the Lord of hosts is his name, Your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, called God of all the earth.

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man marries a virgin, your Builder shall marry you; And as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride so shall your God rejoice in you.

Zechariah 13:7

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the one who is my associate —oracle of the Lord of hosts. Strike the shepherd that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Matthew 26:31

Then Jesus said to them, “This night all of you will have your faith in me shaken, for it is written: ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be dispersed’;

Matthew 9:15

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

Mark 2:19

Jesus answered 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 unshrunken cloth on an old cloak. If he does, its fullness pulls away, the new from the old, and the tear gets worse.

Luke 17:22

Then he said to his disciples, “The days will come when you will long 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, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.”

John 12:8

You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”

John 13:33

My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, and as I told the Jews, ‘Where I go you cannot come,’ so now I say it to you.

John 16:28

I came from the Father and have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

John 16:7

But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

John 17:11

And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are.

John 17:13

But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely.

John 3:29

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom; the best man, who stands and listens to him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. So this joy of mine has been made complete.

Acts 1:9

When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight.

Acts 14:23

They appointed presbyters for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lord in whom they had put their faith.

Acts 3:21

whom heaven must receive until the times of universal restoration of which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old.

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive each other, except perhaps by mutual consent for a time, to be free for prayer, but then return to one another, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

2 Corinthians 11:2

For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God, since I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:27

in toil and hardship, through many sleepless nights, through hunger and thirst, through frequent fastings, through cold and exposure.

2 Corinthians 6:5

beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, vigils, fasts;

Revelation 19:7

Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory. For the wedding day of the Lamb has come, his bride has made herself ready.

Revelation 21:9

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