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34 And Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the sons[a] of the wedding-hall fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? 35 But days will come. And when the bridegroom is taken-away from them, then they will fast in those days”. 36 And He was also speaking a parable to them, that “No one having torn a patch from a new garment puts it on an old garment. Otherwise indeed he[b] will both tear the new, and the patch from the new will not agree[c] with the old.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 5:34 That is, the attendants of the groom; the groomsmen.
  2. Luke 5:36 Or, it; such an action as just described.
  3. Luke 5:36 Or, fit, match. Jesus is not a patch on the old Jewish system. He is a new garment, so His disciples behave in a new way.

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