^{33 Ref} They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"

^{34 Ref} He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

^{35 Ref} But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days."

^{36 Ref} He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.

^{37 Ref} No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

^{38 Ref} But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.

^{39 Ref} No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"