The Question about Fasting

Mat 9:14–17

Mrk 2:18–22

1. 18 Jesus said to them, “At a wedding ceremony everybody is happy and they all eat food together with the man that is getting married. It’s the same way for me. I’m still here, so my friends are happy and don’t need to stop eating food. Not yet.
2. 19 One day my enemies will take me away, then my friends will be sad, and they will stop eating food.”
3. 20 Then Jesus told them 2 picture stories about the things he was teaching, to get them to start thinking a new way. He said, “If you have an old coat with a hole in it, you can’t fix that hole with a new bit of cloth. If you try to do that, and then wash it, the new cloth will tear away and the coat will still be useless.
4. 21 And this is another story. You don’t put new drink into an old cracked bottle. That drink will all leak out and you will lose it. You have to put new drink into new bottles.”
5. 22 One day, on the Jewish rest day, Jesus and his followers walked through a garden that had seed food growing in it. They walked along and they got a bit hungry, so his followers grabbed some of the seeds to eat.