A moment in scripture
Luke 5:34
And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
The surrounding passage
- Luke 5:32
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
- Luke 5:33
And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?
- Luke 5:35
But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
- Luke 5:36
And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.