Markus 2:19

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

En Jezus zeide tot hen: De bruiloftsgasten kunnen toch niet vasten terwijl de bruidegom bij hen is? Zolang zij den bruidegom bij zich hebben kunnen zij niet vasten.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En Jezus zeide tot hen: Hoe kunnen de bruiloftslieden vasten, terwijl de bruidegom bij hen is? Zolang de bruidegom bij hen is kunnen zij niet vasten;

Staten Vertaling
En Jezus zeide tot hen: Kunnen ook de bruiloftskinderen vasten, terwijl de Bruidegom bij hen is? Zo langen tijd zij den Bruidegom bij zich hebben, kunnen zij niet vasten.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Can: Genesis 29:22, Judges 14:10, Judges 14:11, Psalms 45:14, Song of Solomon 6:8, Matthew 25:1-10

Reciprocal: John 16:4 - because

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Jesus said unto them,.... Both to John's disciples and the Pharisees,

can the children of the bride chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? Suggesting that he was the bridegroom, as John their master had called him, John 3:29, and that his disciples were the children of the bride chamber; and that it was very unsuitable for them, and very unreasonable to desire them to fast at such a time, and under such a character: wherefore the answer returned by Christ himself to the question is,

as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast: all which the Syriac version expresses by לא, "no": see Gill "Mt 9:15".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 9:15-17.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 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.