On Fasting

³³ And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and make prayers—likewise also the disciples^[a] of the Pharisees—but yours are eating and drinking!” ³⁴ So he^[b] said^[c] to them, “You are not able to make the bridegroom’s attendants^[d] fast as long as the bridegroom is with them, are you?^{[e] 35} But days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.” ³⁶ And he also told a parable to them: “No one tears a patch from a new garment and^[f] puts it^[g] on an old garment. Otherwise, he will have torn the new also, and the old will not match the patch that is from the new. ³⁷ And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the wineskins, and it will be spilled and the wineskins will be destroyed. ³⁸ But new wine must be put into new wineskins. ³⁹ And no one after^[h] drinking old wine^[i] wants new, because he says, ‘The old is just fine!’”