So she kept on crying in front of him for the entire seven days of the wedding party. On the seventh day he told the solution to her because she nagged him, and then she told the solution to the riddle to her relatives.

and Samson's wife went to the best man at his wedding.

Then the Philistines demanded, "Who did this?" Someone said, "Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because his father-in-law took Samson's wife and gave her to the best man at Samson's wedding." In retaliation, the Philistines came up and burned her and her father to death.

So Laban gathered all the men who lived in that place and held a wedding festival.

No matter how big or how extensive your demands are for a dowry and wedding presents from me, I'll provide whatever you ask. Only give me the young lady to be my wife."

They're like little children who sit in the marketplace and shout to each other, "A wedding song we played for you, the dance you all did scorn. A woeful dirge we chanted, too, but then you would not mourn.'

Be like people who are waiting for their master to return from a wedding. As soon as he arrives and knocks, they will open the door for him.

"When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, don't sit down at the place of honor in case someone more important than you was invited by the host.

On the third day of that week there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

The daughter of Tyre will come with a wedding gift; wealthy people will entreat your favor.

Gather the people! Dedicate the congregation! Bring in the elders. Gather the youngsters and even the nursing infants. Call the bridegroom from his wedding preparations, and the bride from her dressing room.

Come out, young women of Zion, and see King Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him on his wedding day his day of great delight.

Jesus asked them, "The wedding guests can't mourn as long as the groom is with them, can they? But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast."

"A wedding song we played for you, the dance you all did scorn. A woeful dirge we chanted, too, but then you would not mourn.'

"The kingdom from heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.

He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding, but they refused to come.

So he sent other servants after saying, "Tell those who have been invited, "Look! I've prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened calves have been slaughtered. Everything is ready. Come to the wedding!"'

"Then he told his servants, "The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

So go into the roads leading out of town and invite as many people as you can find to the wedding.'

Those servants went out into the streets and brought in everyone they found, evil and good alike, and the wedding hall was packed with guests.

"When the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

He asked him, "Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' But the man was speechless.

Will a young woman forget her wedding ornaments, or a bride her attire? But my people have forgotten me days without number.

"While they were away buying it, the groom arrived. Those who were ready went with him into the wedding banquet, and the door was closed.

Jesus replied, "The wedding guests can't fast while the groom is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they can't fast.

But Jesus told them, "You can't force the wedding guests to fast while the groom is still with them, can you?