Matthew 9:15 - Exposition

And Jesus said unto them, Can. It is a moral impossibility ( Matthew 6:24 ). The children (sons, Revised Version) of the bride-chamber ( οἱυἱοὶ τοῦ νυμφῶνος ) . Edersheim ('Life,' etc., 1:663) points out that these are not the shoshbenim , the friends of the bridegroom, who conducted the bride with music, etc., to the house of her parents-in-law, and to the bride-chamber, and who naturally remained to take part in the wedding feast; for