Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast. So some people came and asked Him, "Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees' disciples practice fasting, but yours never do?"

Jesus answered them, "The wedding guests cannot fast, can they, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

But a time is coming when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

So Jesus retired with His disciples to the sea, and a vast throng of people followed Him from Galilee, and from Judea,

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from the other side of the Jordan, and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon -- yes, a vast throng of people, as they kept hearing of the great things that He was doing, came to Him.

But a furious squall of wind came up, and the waves were dashing over into the boat, so that it was fast filling.

And they held that caution fast in their minds, as they continued to discuss among themselves what rising from the dead meant.

Now the feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread was two days later. So the high priests and scribes kept looking for some way to arrest Him by stratagem and have Him put to death,

for they kept saying, "It must not be at the feast, for there might be a riot."

On the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, the usual time for killing the Passover lamb, Jesus' disciples asked Him, "Where do you want us to go and get the Passover supper ready for you to eat?"

Now at the time of the feast Pilate usually set a prisoner free whom the people requested.