15 And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the ^ybridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

The Parable of the Ten Virgins

1 ^z“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ^aten virgins who took their lamps¹ and went to meet the ^bbridegroom.²