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Jesus Answers a Question

33 They said to Jesus, “John’s followers often fast[a] for a certain time and pray, just as the Pharisees do. But your followers eat and drink all the time.”

34 Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is still with them. 35 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.”

36 Jesus told them this story: “No one takes cloth off a new coat to cover a hole in an old coat. Otherwise, he ruins the new coat, and the cloth from the new coat will not be the same as the old cloth. 37 Also, no one ever pours new wine into old leather bags. Otherwise, the new wine will break the bags, the wine will spill out, and the leather bags will be ruined. 38 New wine must be put into new leather bags. 39 No one after drinking old wine wants new wine, because he says, ‘The old wine is better.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 5:33 fast The people would give up eating for a special time of prayer and worship to God. It was also done to show sadness and disappointment.

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