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34 [a]Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests[b] fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35 But the days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.” 36 [c]And he also told them a parable. “No one tears a piece from a new cloak to patch an old one. Otherwise, he will tear the new and the piece from it will not match the old cloak.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:34–35 See notes on Mt 9:15 and Mk 2:19.
  2. 5:34 Wedding guests: literally, “sons of the bridal chamber.”
  3. 5:36–39 See notes on Mt 9:16–17 and Mk 2:19.