Mark 2:19

2:19 Jesus 1  said to them, “The wedding guests 2  cannot fast while the bridegroom 3  is with them, can they? 4  As long as they have the bridegroom with them they do not fast.

1 tn Grk “And Jesus.”

2 tn Grk “sons of the wedding hall,” an idiom referring to wedding guests, or more specifically, friends of the bridegroom present at the wedding celebration (L&N 11.7).

3 sn The expression while the bridegroom is with them is an allusion to messianic times (John 3:29; Isa 54:5-6; 62:4-5; 4 Ezra 2:15, 38).

4 tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “can they?”).