A Question About Fasting

Luke 5

³³ Then they said to Him, _i "Why ₁ do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?" ³⁴ And He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the _j bridegroom is with them? ³⁵ "But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days." ³⁶ _k Then He spoke a parable to them: "No one ₂ puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. ³⁷ "And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. ³⁸ "But new wine must be put into new wineskins, ₃ and both are preserved. ³⁹ "And no one, having drunk old wine, ₄ immediately desires new; for he says, 'The old is ₅ better.' "

1. Cross References
   Matthew 9:14
   Then the disciples of John came to Him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?
   Mark 2:18
   The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting. Then they came and said to Him, "Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?
   Luke 7:33
   "For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'
   
2. Cross References
   John 3:29
   He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled.
   
3. Cross References
   Matthew 9:16
   No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse.
   Matthew 9:17
   "Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved."
   Mark 2:21
   No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse.
   Mark 2:22
   "And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins."
   

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