Matthew 9:14-16

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

The Question about Fasting

¹⁴ Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, ‘Why do we and the Pharisees fast often,^[a] but your disciples do not fast?’ ¹⁵ And Jesus said to them, ‘The wedding-guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. ¹⁶ No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made.