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?"
Matthew 9:14 Cross References - Moffatt
Matthew 6:16
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.
Matthew 11:2
2 Now when John heard in prison what the Christ was doing, he sent his disciples
Matthew 11:18-19
Mark 2:18-22
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."
Luke 5:33-39
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.'"
Luke 18:9-12
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.'
John 3:25
25 Now a dispute arose between John's disciples and a Jew over the question of 'purification';
John 4:1
1 Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard of Jesus gaining and baptizing more disciples than John