14 Then John’s disciples came to him and asked: “Why do we and the Pharisees practice fasting but your disciples do not fast?”+ 15 At this Jesus said to them: “The friends of the bridegroom+ have no reason to mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, do they? But days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them,+ and then they will fast.

33 They said to him: “John’s disciples fast frequently and offer supplications, and so do those of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.”+ 34 Jesus said to them: “You cannot make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? 35 But days will come when the bridegroom+ will indeed be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.”+