Old Testament

New Testament

Mark 2:20-25 New Century Version (NCV)

20. But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.

21. “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth over a hole in an old coat. Otherwise, the patch will shrink and pull away—the new patch will pull away from the old coat. Then the hole will be worse.

22. Also, no one ever pours new wine into old leather bags. Otherwise, the new wine will break the bags, and the wine will be ruined along with the bags. But new wine should be put into new leather bags.”

23. One Sabbath day, as Jesus was walking through some fields of grain, his followers began to pick some grain to eat.

24. The Pharisees said to Jesus, “Why are your followers doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”

25. Jesus answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and those with him were hungry and needed food?

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