A Question about Fasting
18 Now 2:18–22 Mt 9:14–17; Lk 5:33–39 John’s 2:18 Mk 1:4 disciples 2:18 Jn 3:25 and the Pharisees 2:18 Other mss read The disciples of John and of the Pharisees, 2:18 Mk 7:3 were fasting. 2:18 Lk 18:12; Ac 13:2 People came and asked him, "Why do John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but your disciples do not fast? "
19 Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot fast while the groom 2:19 Jn 2:9is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.20 But the time 2:20 Or the dayswill come 2:20 Mk 13:24when the groom will be taken away from them, 2:20 Lk 17:22; Jn 16:16–20and then they will fast 2:20 Lk 18:12on that day.21 No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new patch pulls away from the old cloth, 2:21 Lk 19:36and a worse tear is made.22 And no one puts new wine 2:22 Lk 5:37into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst 2:22 Jn 6:27the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. No, new wine is put into fresh wineskins."