Living_Oracles(i)
33 Then they asked him, How is it that the disciples of John, and likewise those of the Pharisees, frequently fast and pray, but yours eat and drink?
34 He answered, Would you have the bridesmen fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
35 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them: in those days they will fast.
36 He added this similitude, No man mends an old mantle with new cloth; otherwise the new will rend the old; besides, the old and new will never suit each other.
37 No person puts new wine into old leather bottles; otherwise, the new wine will burst the bottles, and thus the wine will be spoiled, and the bottles rendered useless.
38 But if new wine be put into new bottles, both will be preserved.
39 Besides, a man, after drinking old wine, calls not immediately for new; for he says, The old is milder.