Matthew 9:14-17 (NRSV)
14Then
the disciples of John came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees
fast often, but your disciples do not fast?" 15And Jesus
said to them, "The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom
is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away
from them, and then they will fast. 16No one sews a piece of unshrunk
cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse
tear is made. 17Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise,
the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but
new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."
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