"When you fast, do not look downcast like the hypocrites; for they disfigure their faces so that it may be apparent to men that they are fasting. In solemn truth I tell you, they already have received their reward.

"Can the friends fast at a wedding-feast," said Jesus, "so long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom has been taken from them, and then they will fast.

"The kingdom of heaven," he said, "may be compared to a king who made a wedding-feast for his son.

"He sent out his slaves to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they did not want to come.

"Again he sent out other slaves. 'Tell the invited guests,' he said, 'that my luncheon is now ready; my oxen and fat cattle are killed; everything is ready; come to the wedding-feast.'

"Then he said to his slaves, "'The wedding-feast indeed is ready, but the invited guests were not worthy.

"'So go out into the partings of the highways, and summon everybody you find there to the wedding-feast.'

"And while they were going away to buy, the bridegroom came; and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding-feast. And the door was shut.

but said they, "Not during the feast, for fear of causing a riot among the people."

On the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and said, "Where do you want us to make preparation for you eat the Passover?"