14 Then Yohan’s (John; Grk. Yoannes) apprentices approached Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) and said, “How come we and the Farisaios fast regularly, but your apprentices don’t fast?”

15 And Yeshua replied to them, “Surely the groomsmen aren’t sad while the groom is with them? But the time will come when the groom has to leave them, and then they’ll fast.

16 No one patches old clothes with new material, because the patch will shrink and the clothes would end up with a worse hole. 17 And they don’t put new wine into an old container, otherwise the container could split and be ruined, and the wine would be lost. Instead, they put new wine into a new container, and both survive.”

18 Now the followers of Yohan-the-immerser, and members of the Farisaios party, regularly fasted. So a small group came to Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) and asked, “How come Yohan’s (John; Grk. Yoannes) followers and the Farisaios party fast regularly, yet your followers don’t?”

19 “Can the groomsmen fast when they’re celebrating along with him?” Yeshua answered, “No, as long as he’s still there, they won’t be fasting. 20 But in the future, the groom will be taken away from them, and then they’ll be fasting.

21 “No one sews a patch of new, unshrunken cloth onto used clothes, because the new patch will tear away from that old fabric, and it will end up with a worse tear. 22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskin containers, because the wine will burst the already stretched wineskins, and then both the wine and the wineskins will be destroyed. New wine must be put into new wineskins.”

33 Then the religious leaders complained, “Yohan’s (John; 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.”