Matthew 9:15
ContextNETBible | Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests 1 cannot mourn while the bridegroom 2 is with them, can they? But the days 3 are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, 4 and then they will fast. |
XREF | Jud 14:11-20; Ps 45:14,15; Isa 22:12; Mt 25:1-10; Lu 24:13-21; Joh 3:29; Joh 16:6,20-22; Ac 1:9,10; Ac 13:1-3; Ac 14:23; 1Co 7:5; 2Co 11:27; Re 19:9; Re 21:2 |
NET © Notes |
1 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). 2 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). 3 tn Grk “days.” 4 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. |