 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.  The Quarterly Review - Page 4141831Full view - About this book
 | William Bridge - Theology - 1845 - 468 pages
...have you not been sensible ? Our Saviour Christ expounds the one by the other. There came to Christ the disciples of John, saying : Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not ? Jesus said unto them : can the children of the bride-chamber mourn ? &c. He expounds fasting by mourning:... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1845 - 878 pages
...them went to Jesus once to remonstrate against the greater freedom which he allowed to his disciples, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?" (not wishing Jesus to absolve them from their fastings, but plainly hinting to him to enjoin similar... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1845 - 880 pages
...them went to Jesus once to remonstrate against the greater freedom which he allowed to his disciples, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not ?" (not wishing Jesus to absolve them from their fastings, but plainly hinting to him to enjoin similar... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Apologetics - 1846 - 548 pages
...sacrifice : for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. 14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not ? 15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom... | |
 | 1846 - 444 pages
...cliff on which it stands. OX FASTING. SHORT COMMENTS ON MATT. ix. 14 — 17. " 14. THEN came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?" — Probably those who asked the question had a very high opinion of themselves for their fasting.... | |
 | Friedrich Gustav Lisco - 1846 - 408 pages
...incomprehensible difficulty, or rather for the removal of a ground of oflence, put to him the question, "Why do we and the pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?" To which Jesus, in the first instance, replied, v. 15, "Can the children of the bridechamber mourn,... | |
 | Bible - 1846 - 262 pages
...righteous, *but sinner« to repentance. M TT Then came to him the disin the waters. Í Ma. 2 IN, ciples of John, saying, 'Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but 33 And they that kept them, fled. Ar. lu 6. and wt-nt their ways into the city, and (old every thing;... | |
 | John James Blunt - Bible - 1847 - 376 pages
...the following parallel passages in these two Evangelists. Matth. ix. 14. — '•' Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not ?" Mark ii. 18. — " And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast : and they corne... | |
 | Benjamin Davies - 1847 - 232 pages
...come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.3 14 Then came to him 18 the disciples of John,3 saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not? 15 And Jesus 19 said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber* mourn, as long as the bridegroom... | |
 | National fast - 1847 - 204 pages
...reward thee openly." (Matt. vi. 17, 18.) When the disciples of John put the question 193 to him, " Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not ? " he plainly excuses their avoidance of this ' practice: " Can the children of the bride-chamber... | |
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