Mark 2:18 Cross References - MNT

¹⁸ Now the disciples of John and the Pharisees were keeping a fast, and people came to ask him, "How is it that the disciples of John and the Pharisees are fasting, but your disciples are not?"

¹⁶ "When you fast, do not look downcast like the hypocrites; for they disfigure their faces so that it may be apparent to men that they are fasting. In solemn truth I tell you, they already have received their reward.

¹⁸ "so that he may not appear to men to be fasting, but to his Father who is in secret; and his Father who sees in secret will reward him.

¹⁴ At that time the disciples of John came and asked him, "Why are we and the Pharisees always fasting, while your disciples are not?" ¹⁵ "Can the friends fast at a wedding-feast," said Jesus, "so long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom has been taken from them, and then they will fast. ¹⁶ "No one ever sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old cloak. If they did, the patch put on to fill it up would tear away from the cloak, and the rent be made worse. ¹⁷ "Nor do they put new wine into old wine-skins; if they did, the wine-skins would split, the wine would run out, and the skins be ruined. Instead, they put new wine into fresh wine-skins and both are preserved."

⁵ "For they do all their good deeds to be gazed on of men. They widen their phylacteries,

³³ Again they said unto him. "Why do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make supplications, as also do the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples are eating and drinking?" ³⁴ "Can you make the bridal party fast," he asked, while the bridegroom is still with them? ³⁵ "But there is coming a day when the Bridegroom will have been taken away from them; then at that time they will fast." ³⁶ He also told them a parable. "No one," he said, "tears a piece from a new garment, and patches it upon an old one; otherwise he will tear the new garment, and the patch from the new will not mend the old. ³⁷ "Nor does any one pour new wine into old wine-skins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins, and will itself be spilled, and the skins be destroyed ³⁸ "But new wine must be put into fresh wine-skins ³⁹ "And no man after drinking old wine, wishes for new; for he says, "The old is better.""

¹² "'I fast twice a week, I pay tithes of all my possessions.'

³ For because they were ignorant of God's righteousness, and sought to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God.