18. And the disciples of John, and the Pharisees, were fasting. And they arrived and said to him, "Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"
19. And Jesus said to them: "How can the sons of the wedding fast while the groom is still with them? During whatever time they have the groom with them, they are not able to fast.
20. But the days will arrive when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they shall fast, in those days.
21. No one sews a patch of new cloth onto an old garment. Otherwise, the new addition pulls away 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 will pour out, and the wineskins will be lost. Instead, new wine must be put into new wineskins."
23. And again, while the Lord was walking through the ripe grain on the Sabbath, his disciples, as they advanced, began to separate the ears of grains.
24. But the Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbaths?"
25. And he said to them: "Have you never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, both he and those who were with him?
26. How he went into the house of God, under the high priest Abiathar, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful to eat, except for the priests, and how he gave it 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. And so, the Son of man is Lord, even of the Sabbath."