Questions About Fasting and the New Way

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Next they said to him, "Yochanan's talmidim are always fasting and davvening, and likewise the talmidim of the P'rushim; but yours go on eating and drinking."

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Yeshua said to them, "Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is still with them?

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The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; and when that time comes, they will fast."

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Then he gave them an illustration: "No one tears a piece from a new coat and puts it on an old one; if he does, not only will the new one continue to rip, but the piece from the new will not match the old.

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Also, no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and be spilled, and the skins too will be ruined.

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On the contrary, new wine must be put into freshly prepared wineskins.

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Besides that, after drinking old wine, people don't want new; because they say, `The old is good enough.'"

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