Mark 2:18-22

18 ¹John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they came and said to Him, "Why * do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?"

19 And Jesus said to them, "While * the bridegroom is with them, the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast, can they? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot * fast.

20 "But the ²days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

21 "No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.

22 "No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins."

Cross References

• 1. Mark 2:18-22: {Matthew 9:14-17; Luke 5:33-38}
• 2. Matthew 9:15; Luke 17:22

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "sons of the bridal-chamber"
• [b] Lit "that which is put on"
• [c] Lit "that which fills up"