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Jesus heard the words, and He said, "It is not the healthy who require a doctor, but the sick: I did not come to appeal to the righteous, but to sinners."
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(Now John's disciples and those of the Pharisees were keeping a fast.) And they came and asked Him, "How is it that John's disciples and those of the Pharisees are fasting, and yours are not?"
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"Can a wedding party fast while the bridegroom is among them?" replied Jesus. "So long as they have the bridegroom with them, fasting is impossible.
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But a time will come when the Bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast.
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No one mends an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. Otherwise, the patch put on would tear away from it--the new from the old--and a worse hole would be made.
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And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the wine would burst the skins, and both wine and skins would be lost. New wine needs fresh skins!"
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One Sabbath He was walking through the wheatfields when His disciples began to pluck the ears of wheat as they went.
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So the Pharisees said to Him, "Look! why are they doing what on the Sabbath is unlawful?"
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"Have you never read," Jesus replied, "what David did when the necessity arose and he and his men were hungry:
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how he entered the house of God in the High-priesthood of Abiathar, and ate the Presented Loaves--which none but the priests are allowed to eat--and gave some to his men also?"
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And Jesus said to them: "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath;