The Question about Fasting (LUK 5:33-39)

[5:33] Some people said to Jesus, “The disciples of John fast frequently and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but your disciples eat and drink.”

[5:34] Jesus answered, “Do you think you can make the guests at a wedding party go without food as long as the bridegroom is with them? Of course not!

[5:35] But the day will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.”

[5:36] Jesus also told them this parable: “You don't tear a piece off a new coat to patch up an old coat. If you do, you will have torn the new coat, and the piece of new cloth will not match the old.

[5:37] Nor do you pour new wine into used wineskins, because the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will pour out, and the skins will be ruined.

[5:38] Instead, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins!

[5:39] And you don't want new wine after drinking old wine. ‘The old is better,’ you say.”

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