^{33 Ref} And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?

^{34 Ref} And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

^{35 Ref} But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.

^{36 Ref} And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.

^{37 Ref} And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.

^{38 Ref} But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.

^{39 Ref} No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.