A Question About Fasting

Mark 2

¹⁸ Now _k John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, _l "Why do John's disciples and _m the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" ¹⁹ And Jesus said to them, _n "Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. ²⁰ _o The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and _p then they will fast in that day. ²¹ No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. ²² And no one puts new wine into old _q wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins - and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins." ₁

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3. Cross References
   Luke 18:12
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4. Cross References
   John 3:29
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5. Cross References
   Luke 17:22
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6. Cross References
   John 16:20
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7. Cross References
   Joshua 9:4
   They on their part acted with cunning and went and made ready provisions and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended.