Luke 5:33–39 — The question about fasting

OET-RV by section LUKE 5:33

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5:33 The question about fasting

(Mark 2:18-22; Mat. 9:14-17)

33 Then the religious leaders complained, “Yohan’s (John’s; Grk. Yoannes’) followers often fast and bring their needs to God, as do the Farisaios, but your followers are eating and drinking.”

34 “You can’t make the groomsmen fast at a wedding,” Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) responded, “not while the groom is with them. 35 But yes, there will be a future time when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they’ll fast.”

36 Then he went on to tell them this parable, “No one repairs their old clothes by putting on a patch of new material. If they did, the new patch will likely tear off again, plus it wouldn’t look right anyway. 37 Similarly, no one puts new wine to mature into old wineskins. If they did, the new wine would certainly burst the old wineskin and it would all pour out and the wineskin would be ruined as well. 38 New wine needs to be put into a new wineskin. 39 And no one who’s used to the old ways wants the new, because he’ll claim that the old is good enough.”