^{18 Ref} And John's disciples and the Pharisees were taking no food: and they came and said to him, Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees go without food, but your disciples do not?

^{19 Ref} And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of a newly-married man go without food while he is with them? as long as they have him with them they will not go without food.

^{20 Ref} But the days will come when the husband will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.

^{21 Ref} No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.

^{22 Ref} And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins: or the skins will be burst by the wine, and the wine and the skins will be wasted: but new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.