“He said to them,“Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?”
Luke 5:34 (WEB)
Context Reading
32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” 33They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?” 34He said to them,“Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.” 36He also told a parable to them.“No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.