A Question About Fasting
18 Now Matt. 11:2;14:12;Luke 11:1;John 1:35;3:25;4:1;[Acts 18:25;19:3] John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, [ch. 7:5] "Why do John’s disciples and Luke 18:12the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" 19 And Jesus said to them, John 3:29"Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.20 See Luke 17:22The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and [John 16:20]then they will fast in that day.21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.22 And no one puts new wine into old Josh. 9:4wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins."2:22 Some manuscripts omit But new wine is for fresh wineskins