Matthew 9:15

On Fasting

¹⁴ Then come to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees often fast, but thy disciples fast not? ¹⁵ And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bridechamber mourn so long as the bridegroom is with them? But days will come when the bridegroom will have been taken away from them, and then they will fast. ¹⁶ But no one puts a patch of new cloth on an old garment, for its filling up takes from the garment and a worse rent takes place.

Days are Coming

Friends of the Bridegroom

Jesus Said

Jesus

John 3:29

He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices in heart because of the voice of the bridegroom: this my joy then is fulfilled.

Acts 14:23

And having chosen them elders in each assembly, having prayed with fastings, they committed them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Judges 14:11-20

And when the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

Psalm 45:14-15

She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of embroidery; the virgins behind her, her companions, shall be brought in unto thee:

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;

Matthew 25:1-10

Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be made like to ten virgins that having taken their torches, went forth to meet the bridegroom.

Luke 24:13-21

And behold, two of them were going on the same day to a village distant sixty stadia from Jerusalem, called Emmaus;

John 16:6

But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

John 16:20-22

Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, ye, but the world shall rejoice; and ye will be grieved, but your grief shall be turned to joy.

Acts 1:9-10

And having said these things he was taken up, they beholding him, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

Acts 13:1-3

Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was there, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen, foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

1 Corinthians 7:5

Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

2 Corinthians 11:27

in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Revelation 19:9

And he says to me, Write, Blessed are they who are called to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb. And he says to me, These are the true words of God.

Revelation 21:2

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.