“But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.”
But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast — the future tense anticipates the cross: when the bridegroom is taken (removed by force — the passive implying violence), then fasting will be appropriate. The disciples' fasting will not be a religious performance but genuine mourning for genuine loss. The verse is the first indirect reference to Jesus' death in Luke.
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