"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?"

Then came a convenient day, when Herod on his birthday held a feast for his lords and generals and the leading men of Galilee,

Now two days later was the feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread. Both the chief priests and the Scribes were continually seeking how they might arrest him by a stratagem and kill him;

but, "Not on a feast-day," they said, "for fear there should be a riot among the people."

And the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, the day for killing the paschal lamb, his disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make preparation for you to eat the Passover?"

Now at the time of the feast it was customary to release to them a prisoner, whatever one they asked for.

Now his parents were accustomed to go up to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover.

And when he was twelve years old they went up, as was customary, at the time of the feast

"When you are invited by any one to a marriage-feast, do not sit down in the best seat, lest a guest more distinguished than yourself has been invited, and your host come to you and say,

Jesus answered. "A certain man was making a great feast to which he invited many guests.

"Now he had to release to them at the feast one prisoner."

So they filled them brimful. Then he said, "Draw some out now, and carry it to the master of the feast."

So they carried it. And when the master of the feast had tasted of the water which had been made wine, not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn it knew, he called the bridegroom and said to him.

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many believed in his name, when they beheld the signs which he did;

When he reached Galilee, however, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they, too, had been at the feast.

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Then Jesus walked up the hills and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Jewish feast, the Passover, was at hand.

When the time of the Jewish feast of Tabernacles drew near,

Do you go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fully come."

After saying this, he remained in Galilee; but after his brothers had gone up to feast,

The Jews meanwhile kept looking for him at feast, and saying, "Where is he?" "I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

But when it was already the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach. "I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Now the last day, that the great day of the feast, Jesus stood up and cried in a loud voice.

Then came the feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.

So they kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another, as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think??hat he will not come to the feast at all?"

Now there were certain Greeks among those who had come up to worship during the Passover feast;

Now just before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come when he should leave this world to go to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, showed forth his love to the end.

for some were thinking, as Judas kept the purse, that Jesus meant to tell him, "Buy the things that we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.

"I find no crime in this man. Now it is a custom of yours that I release one prisoner to you at the time of the Passover feast. Do you wish me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

So let us keep the unending feast, not with any old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and vice, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Therefore do not permit any one to sit in judgment on you in regard to what you may eat or drink, or in regard to feast-days or new moons or sabbaths.

These are they who are stains upon your love-feasts; when they feast sumptuously without scruple, looking after none but themselves. They are clouds without water, driven along by the winds; trees of autumn, fruitless, doubly dead, torn up by the roots,