Today, as I prepared for my youth bible study tomorrow morning, I was reading Mark chapter two and I came across one of those passages. You know, the ones that never quite make sense? You hear them over and over again, but you never sit down and just try to make sense of it? Well, today I came across one of those and I realized that, if I’m going to teach this passage tomorrow, I had better sit down with a couple of commentaries and figure it out. Here’s the passage I’m talking about: 18 Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” 19 And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in tha...
(or, A Fragment of Theology)