Your Sins Are Forgiven
18 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast, and people came and asked Jesus: “Why is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, while yours do not?” 19 Jesus answered: “Can the bridegroom’s friends fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be parted from them, and they will fast then when that day comes.
21 No one ever sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; if they do, the patch tears away from it—the new from the old—and a worse rent is made. 22 And no one ever puts new wine into old wine-skins; if they do, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are lost. But new wine is put into fresh skins.”
23 One Sabbath, as Jesus was walking through the cornfields, his disciples began to pick the ears of wheat as they went along. 24 “Look!” the Pharisees said to him, “why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?” 25 “Have you never read,” answered Jesus, “what David did when he was in want and hungry, he and his companions? 26 How he went into the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate ‘the consecrated bread,’ which only the priests are allowed to eat, and gave some to his comrades as well?”
27 Then Jesus added: “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath; 28 So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
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