19. And יהושע said to them, “Are the friends of the bridegroom able to fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast.
20. “But the days shall come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast in those days.
21. “And no one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, otherwise the renewed piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse.
22. “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, otherwise the new wine bursts the wineskins, and the wine runs out, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine is to be put into fresh wineskins.”
23. And it came to be that He went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And as they went His taught ones began to pluck heads of grain,
24. and the Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why do they do what is not right on the Sabbath?”
25. And He said to them, “Have you never read what Dawiḏ did when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him?
26. “How he went into the House of Elohim, while Eḇyathar was high priest, and ate the showbread, which is not right to eat, except for the priests, and he gave it also to those who were with him?”
27. And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
28. “So the Son of Aḏam is also Master of the Sabbath.”