16假设你在婚礼中当男傧相,但是婚礼进行时,你这男傧相却在禁食,这对新郎是侮辱。没有新郎愿意在婚礼中看见男傧相禁食,反而要他喜乐,穿着端庄得体,并欢享所摆出的食物。这是主在十九节所说之话的例证。在这里主似乎对约翰的门徒和法利赛人说,“你们为什么问说,我的门徒为什么不禁食?我是新郎,他们都是伴友,是团体的男傧相。税吏马太是伴友之一。我与他们同在的时候,他们不能禁食。”
16Suppose you are the best man at a wedding. While the wedding is taking place, you, the bridegroom’s best man, are fasting. That would be an insult to the bridegroom. No bridegroom wants to see his best man fasting during his wedding. Instead, he wants to see him joyful, properly dressed in good clothing, and enjoying the food provided. This is an illustration of the Lord’s word in 2:19. Here the Lord seemed to be saying to the disciples of John and the Pharisees, “Why do you ask Me why My disciples are not fasting? I am the Bridegroom, and they are all the sons of the bridechamber, a corporate best man. Matthew the tax collector is one of the sons of the bridechamber. They cannot fast when I am with them.”