Mark 2:19 (BSB)
Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them? As long as He is with them, they cannot fast.
Commentary on Mark 2:19
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 2:18-28: Christ had been put to justify himself in conversing with publicans and sinners: here he is put to justify his disciples; and in what they do according to his will he will justify them, and bear them out. I. He justifies them in their not fasting, which was turned to their reproach by the Pharisees. Why do the Pharisees and the disciples of John fast?
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 2:19: But the days will come,.... As they were in some sense now come to the disciples of John, their master being taken up by Herod, and confined in prison, and so it was a mourning time with them: when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days: referring to the time of the sufferings and death of...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Mark 2:19: Verses 19-22. See (q) "the bridegroom is with"
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Mark 2:19: Can the children of the bride-chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? - Among the Hindoos, large parties of friends, belonging both to the bride and bridegroom, attend on both during the wedding day; on the following day, when the bridegroom leaves the house of his father-in-law, the attendants are filled with sorrow, especially the near relations. - Ward's Customs.