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Also Yochanan's talmidim and the P'rushim were fasting; and they came and asked Yeshua, "Why is it that Yochanan's talmidim and the talmidim of the P'rushim fast, but your talmidim don't fast?"
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Yeshua answered them, "Can wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is still with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, fasting is out of the question.
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But the time will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them; and when that day comes, they will fast.
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No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old coat; if he does, the new patch tears away from the old cloth and leaves a worse hole.
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And no one puts new wine in old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins will be ruined. Rather, new wine is for freshly prepared wineskins."
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One Shabbat Yeshua was passing through some wheat fields; and as they went along, his talmidim began picking heads of grain.
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The P'rushim said to him, "Look! Why are they violating Shabbat?"
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He said to them, "Haven't you ever read what David did when he and those with him were hungry and needed food?
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He entered the House of God when Evyatar was cohen gadol and ate the Bread of the Presence," -- which is forbidden for anyone to eat but the cohanim -- "and even gave some to his companions."
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Then he said to them, "Shabbat was made for mankind, not mankind for Shabbat;
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So the Son of Man is Lord even of Shabbat."