13 But go and learn what this means: a‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, bbut sinners, to repentance.”
Jesus Is Questioned About Fasting
14 Then the disciples of John came to Him, saying, a“Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?”
15 And Jesus said to them, “Can athe friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and bthen they will fast.
16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for1 the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse.
17 Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins1 break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
A Girl Restored to Life and a Woman Healed
18 aWhile He spoke these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped Him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay Your hand on her and she will live.”
19 So Jesus arose and followed him, and so did His adisciples.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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Definitions of words in Matthew 9:15:
As {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
Come {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
Jesus {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Jesus {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Jesus {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
Will {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
Fast {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Mourn {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Other definition entries containing Matthew 9:15:
Capernaum {Easton's}
Matthew, Gospel according to {Easton's}
Abstinence {I.S.B.E.}
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