Matthew 9:14-17

The Question about Fasting

14 Then the disciples of John came to Him, asking, "Why * do we and ¹the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?"

15 And Jesus said to them, "The attendants of the bridegroom cannot * mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

16 "But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.

17 "Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."

Cross References

• 1. Luke 18:12

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "sons of the wedding place"
• [b] Lit "that which is put on"
• [c] Lit "that which fills up"