And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
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Gill's Exposition
But the days will come,.... And that in a very little time, as they did:
when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them: as their master, John, was taken away from them, and now in prison, and…
See this passage illustrated in the notes at Mat 9:14-17. Luk 5:39 Having drunk old wine ... - Wine increases its strength and flavor, and its mildness and mellowness, by age, and the old is therefore…
All this, except the last verse, we had before in Matthew and Mark; it is not the story of any miracle in nature wrought by our Lord Jesus, but it is an account of some of the wonders of his grace,…
Cambridge Bible
the children of the bridechamber The friends of the bridegroom the paranymphs who accompanied him to meet the bride and her maidens; Jdg 14:11. The question would be specially forcible to John's…
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