Matthew 9:14-17

A Question About Fasting

14Then athe disciples of John came to him, saying, bWhy do we and cthe Pharisees fast,
Some manuscripts add much, or often
but your disciples do not fast?”
15And Jesus said to them, eCan the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? fThe days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and gthen they will fast. 16No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. 17Neither is new wine put into old hwineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”

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