Mark 2:20
Context2:20 But the days are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, 1 and at that time 2 they will fast.
Mark 8:2
Context8:2 “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.
Mark 13:19
Context13:19 For in those days there will be suffering 3 unlike anything that has happened 4 from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen.


[2:20] 1 sn The statement the bridegroom will be taken from them is a veiled allusion by Jesus to his death, which he did not make explicit until the incident at Caesarea Philippi in 8:27ff. (cf. 8:31; 9:31; 10:33).
[2:20] 2 tn Grk “then on that day.”
[13:19] 3 tn Traditionally, “tribulation.”
[13:19] 4 sn Suffering unlike anything that has happened. Some refer this event to the destruction of Jerusalem in