SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:19
Y Jess les dice: ¿Pueden ayunar los que estn de bodas, cuando el Esposo est con ellos? Entre tanto que tienen consigo al Esposo, no pueden ayunar.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Mark 2:19
Verse 19. Can the children of the bride-chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them?] Among the Hindoos, large parties of friends, belonging both to the bride and bridegroom, attend on both during the wedding day; on the following day, when the bridegroom leaves the house of his father-in-law, the attendants are filled with sorrow, especially the near relations.-WARD'S Customs.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 19. And Jesus said unto them , etc..] Both to John's disciples and the Pharisees, can the children of the bride chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them ? Suggesting that he was the bridegroom, as John their master had called him, ( John 3:29), and that his disciples were the children of the bride chamber; and that it was very unsuitable for them, and very unreasonable to desire them to fast at such a time, and under such a character: wherefore the answer returned by Christ himself to the question is, as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast : all which the Syriac version expresses by al , no: see Gill Matthew 9:15 .
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 18-22 - Strict professors are apt to blame all that do not fully come up to their own views. Christ did not escape slanders; we should be willin to bear them, as well as careful not to deserve them; but should atten to every part of our duty in its proper order and season.
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ ειπεν 2036 5627 V-2AAI-3S αυτοις 846 P-DPM ο 3588 T-NSM ιησους 2424 N-NSM μη 3361 PRT-N δυνανται 1410 5736 V-PNI-3P οι 3588 T-NPM υιοι 5207 N-NPM του 3588 T-GSM νυμφωνος 3567 N-GSM εν 1722 PREP ω 3739 R-DSM ο 3588 T-NSM νυμφιος 3566 N-NSM μετ 3326 PREP αυτων 846 P-GPM εστιν 2076 5748 V-PXI-3S νηστευειν 3522 5721 V-PAN οσον 3745 K-ASM χρονον 5550 N-ASM μεθ 3326 PREP εαυτων 1438 F-3GPM εχουσιν 2192 5719 V-PAI-3P τον 3588 T-ASM νυμφιον 3566 N-ASM ου 3756 PRT-N δυνανται 1410 5736 V-PNI-3P νηστευειν 3522 5721 V-PAN
Vincent's NT Word Studies
19. Children of the bride-chamber (uioi tou numfwnov). More correctly as Rev., sons. It is noteworthy that Christ twice uses a figure drawn from marriage in his allusions to John the Baptist, the ascetic. Compare John iii. 29. The sons of the bride-chamber are different from the groomsmen. They are the guests invited to the bridal. The scene is laid in Galilee, where groomsmen were not customary, as in Judaea. Hence there is no mention of them in the account of the marriage at Cana. In Judaea there were at every marriage two groomsmen or friends of the bridegroom. See on John iii. 29.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
2:19 {The sons of the bridechamber} (hoi huioi tou numfwnos). Not merely the groomsmen, but the guests also, the paranymfs (paranumfoi of the old Greek). Jesus here adopts the Baptist's own metaphor (#Joh 3:29), changing the friend of the bridegroom (ho filos tou numfiou) to sons of the bridechamber. Jesus identifies himself with the bridegroom of the O.T. (#Ho 2:21), God in his covenant relation with Israel (Swete). Mourning does not suit the wedding feast. Mark, Matthew, and Luke all give the three parables (bridegroom, unfulled cloth, new wineskins) illustrating and defending the conduct of Jesus in feasting with Levi on a Jewish fast-day. #Lu 5:36 calls these parables. Jesus here seems iconoclastic to the ecclesiastics and revolutionary in emphasis on the spiritual instead of the ritualistic and ceremonial.
