Mark 2:19

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.

Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe.

But you watch. “Behold, I have told you all things beforehand.

Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.

As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

“Behold, I have told you beforehand.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments, a plunder of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.

You shall weave the tunic with fine linen. You shall make a turban of fine linen. You shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.

His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.

Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.

Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?

You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!

Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you; according to all that he has done, you will do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’ ” ’ ”

Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a plunder to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.’ Behold, I have told you.”

His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.

“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”

He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters.

When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.’

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’ ” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”

She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.

There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”