Mark 2:18

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Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and people came and asked Jesus, 'Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but your disciples do not fast?

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  • Matt 6:16 : 16 When you fast, do not look somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly, I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
  • Matt 6:18 : 18 so that your fasting will not be obvious to others, but only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
  • Luke 18:12 : 12 'I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'
  • Matt 9:14-17 : 14 Then the disciples of John came to him and asked, 'Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?' 15 Jesus answered them, 'Can the wedding guests mourn while the bridegroom is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.' 16 No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth, because the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. 17 Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill out, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
  • Matt 23:5 : 5 They do all their deeds to be seen by others. They make their phylacteries broad and their tassels long.
  • Luke 5:33-39 : 33 Then they said to Him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?" 34 Jesus replied, "Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days. 36 Then He told them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new garment and sews it onto an old garment. Otherwise, the new garment will be torn, and the patch from the new will not match the old." 37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, it will spill out, and the skins will be ruined. 38 Instead, new wine must be poured into new wineskins, and both are preserved. 39 And no one after drinking old wine wants new wine, for they say, 'The old is better.'
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 For they are ignorant of the righteousness of God and seek to establish their own; they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.

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    16No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth, because the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.

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    33Then they said to Him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?"

    34Jesus replied, "Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?

    35But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.

    36Then He told them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new garment and sews it onto an old garment. Otherwise, the new garment will be torn, and the patch from the new will not match the old."

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