But Jesus said to them, "You cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?

They are like little children sitting in the market-place and calling to their fellows in the game: "'We played the wedding march for you, but you did not dance. We sang the funeral dirge, but you did not mourn.'

and be like men waiting for their master when he comes home from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks, they at once may open the door for him.

"When you are invited by anyone to a wedding supper, never take the best place, for someone of greater distinction than you may have been invited,