Questions About Fasting and the New Way

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And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but thine eat and drink?

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To whom he said: Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast whilst the bridegroom is with them?

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But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them: then shall they fast in those days.

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And he spoke also a similitude to them: That no man putteth a piece from a new garment upon an old garment: otherwise he both rendeth the new, and the piece taken from the new agreeth not with the old.

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And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the new wine will break the bottles; and it will be spilled and the bottles will be lost.

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But new wine must be put into new bottles: and both are preserved.

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And no man drinking old hath presently a mind to new: for he saith: The old is better.

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