Catholic Public Domain Version
"And he said to them: “How can you cause the sons of the groom to fast, while the groom is still with them? "
— Luke 5:34, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?”
“And Jesus said unto them, Can ye make the sons of the bride-chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? ”
“He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?”
“So Jesus said to them,“You cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?”
“To whom he said: Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast whilst the bridegroom is with them?”
“And Jesus said, Are you able to make the friends of the newly-married man go without food when he is with them?”
“And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?”
And responding, Jesus said to them: “It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who have maladies.
I have not come to call the just, but sinners to repentance.”
But they said to him, “Why do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make supplications, and those of the Pharisees act similarly, while yours eat and drink?”
And he said to them: “How can you cause the sons of the groom to fast, while the groom is still with them?
But the days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast, in those days.”
Then he also made a comparison for them: “For no one sews a patch from a new garment onto an old garment. Otherwise, he both disrupts the new one, and the patch from the new one does not join together with the old one.
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine ruptures the wineskins, and it will be poured out, and the wineskins will be lost.