Mark 2:18-28 ▼

18 John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they came and said to Him, |Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?|

19 And Jesus said to them, |While the bridegroom is with them, the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast, can they? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

20 |But the 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 unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.

22 |No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins [as well]; but [one puts] new wine into fresh wineskins.|

23 And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads [of grain].

24 The Pharisees were saying to Him, |Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?|

25 And He said to them, |Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry;

26 how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar [the] high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful for [anyone] to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?|

27 Jesus said to them, |The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

28 |So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.|