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14 One day the disciples of John the Baptist came to Jesus and asked him, “Why don’t your disciples fast as we do and as the Pharisees do?”

15 “Should the bridegroom’s friends mourn and go without food while he is with them?” Jesus asked. “But the time is coming when I[a] will be taken from them. Time enough then for them to refuse to eat.

16 “And who would patch an old garment with unshrunk cloth? For the patch would tear away and make the hole worse.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 9:15 I, literally, “the Bridegroom.”

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