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Mark 2:20

King James Version (KJV)

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But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.

Mark 2:20 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Mark 2:20

Theological / Devotional

The days will come. Here for the first time Christ publicly implied that eventually He would be taken from His disciples, like a bridegroom forcibly taken from the wedding festivities. More than a year before this He had told Nicodemus in private that He would be “lifted up” (John 3:14).

Taken away. Gr. apairō, “to lift off,” “to carry away.” In the present context the word may imply forced and painful separation, as was true in the violent death of Jesus.

He was “taken away” from them at the cross, and restored to them after the resurrection.

By SdaBc