A Question About Fasting

33 Then they said to him, “[fn]Why is it that the disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees, but yoʋrs eat and drink?” 34 Jesus said to them, “Can you make the bridegroom's attendants fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35 But those days are coming, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, they will fast in those days.” 36 He also told them a parable: “No one [fn]puts a patch from a new garment on an old garment. For not only would he tear the new garment, but the patch from the new garment would not match the old garment. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the new wine would burst the wineskins and would itself be spilled, and the wineskins would be ruined. 38 But new wine must be put into new [fn]wineskins, and then both are preserved. 39 And no one after drinking old wine [fn]immediately desires new wine, for he says, ‘The old is [fn]better.’ ”