18. And John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and said to him, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
19. And Jesus said to them, “The bridegroom’s attendants are not able to fast while the bridegroom is with them, are they? As long a time as they have the bridegroom with them, they are not able to fast.
20. But days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
21. No one sews a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old garment. Otherwise the patch pulls away from it—the new from the old—and the tear becomes worse.
22. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the wine will burst the wineskins and the wine is destroyed and the wineskins too. But new wine is put into new wineskins.”
23. And it happened that he was going through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to make their way while plucking off the heads of grain.
24. And the Pharisees began to say to him, “Behold, why are they doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath?”
25. And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he had need and he and those who were with him were hungry—
26. how he entered into the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the bread of the presentation, which it is not permitted to eat (except the priests) and also gave it to those who were with him?”
27. And he said to them, “The Sabbath was established for people, and not people for the Sabbath.