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Matthew

Fasting and the New Cloth and Wineskins

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Chapter 9
14 Then the disciples of John approach him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?” 15 And Jesus said to them, “Can the sons of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.” 16 No one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for its fullness is taken away from the garment, and a worse tear happens. 17 Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wineskins burst, the wine is poured out, and the wineskins are destroyed. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved together.