33. They said to Jesus, “John’s followers often give up eating and pray, just as the Pharisees do. But your followers eat and drink all the time.”
34. Jesus said to them, “When there is a wedding, you cannot make the friends of the bridegroom give up eating while he is still with them.
35. But the time will come when he will be taken away from them. Then his friends will give up eating.”
36. Jesus told them this story: “No one takes cloth off a new coat to cover a hole in an old coat. If he does, he ruins the new coat, and the cloth from the new coat will not be the same as the old cloth.
37. People never pour new wine into old leather bags for holding wine. If they do, the new wine will break the bags, and the wine will spill out. Then the leather bags for holding wine will be ruined.
38. People always put new wine into new leather bags.