Discovery BoxMatthew 6:16 
Context6:16 “When 1 you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive 2 so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, 3 they have their reward.
Matthew 9:15
Context9:15 Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests 4 cannot mourn while the bridegroom 5 is with them, can they? But the days 6 are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, 7 and then they will fast.
1 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
2 tn Here the term “disfigure” used in a number of translations was not used because it could convey to the modern reader the notion of mutilation. L&N 79.17 states, “‘to make unsightly, to disfigure, to make ugly.’ ἀφανίζουσιν γὰρ τὰ πρόσωπα αὐτῶν ‘for they make their faces unsightly’ Mt 6:16.”
3 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”
4 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).
5 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).
6 tn Grk “days.”
7 sn The statement the bridegroom will be taken from them is a veiled allusion by Jesus to his death, which he did not make explicit until the incident at Caesarea Philippi in 16:13ff.
