Matthew 9:14 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁴ Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast a great deal, and your disciples do not fast?"

¹⁶ When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they look woebegone to let men see they are fasting; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

² Now when John heard in prison what the Christ was doing, he sent his disciples

¹⁸ For John has come neither eating nor drinking, and men say, 'He has a devil'; ¹⁹ the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and men say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all that she does."

¹⁸ As the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were observing a fast, people came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, and your disciples do not fast?" ¹⁹ Jesus said to them, "Can friends at a wedding fast while the bridegroom is beside them? As long as they have the bridegroom beside them they cannot fast. ²⁰ A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them; then they will fast, on that day. ²¹ No one stitches a piece of undressed cloth on an old coat, otherwise the patch breaks away, the new from the old, and the tear is made worse: ²² no one pours fresh wine into old wineskins, otherwise the wine will burst the wineskins, and both wine and wineskins are ruined."

³³ They said to him, "The disciples of John fast frequently and offer prayers, as do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your adherents eat and drink." ³⁴ Jesus said to them, "Can you make friends at a wedding fast while the bride groom is beside them? ³⁵ A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast at that time." ³⁶ He also told them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new cloak and sews it on an old cloak; otherwise he will tear the new cloak, and the new piece will not match with the old. ³⁷ No one pours fresh wine into old wineskins; otherwise the fresh wine will burst the wineskins, the wine will be spilt and the wineskins ruined. ³⁸ No, fresh wine must be poured into new wineskins. ³⁹ Besides, no one wants new wine [immediately] after drinking old; 'The old,' he says, 'is better.'"

⁹ He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else. ¹⁰ "Two men went up to pray in the temple; one was a Pharisee and the other was a taxgatherer. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer. ¹² Twice a week I fast; on all my income I pay tithes.'

²⁵ Now a dispute arose between John's disciples and a Jew over the question of 'purification';

¹ Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard of Jesus gaining and baptizing more disciples than John