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Luke 5:33
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31 Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
32 aI have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”  

Jesus Is Questioned About Fasting

33 Then they said to Him, a“Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?”  
34 And He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the abridegroom is with them?  
35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.”
36 aThen He spoke a parable to them: “No one1 puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.  
37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined.
Verse Comparison: Luke 5:33

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American Standard Version
And they said unto him, The disciples of John fast often, and make supplications; likewise also the `disciples' of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink.

Amplified® Bible
Then they said to Him, The disciples of John practice fasting often and offer up prayers of [special] petition, and so do [the disciples] of the Pharisees also, but Yours eat and drink.

Contemporary English Version
Some people said to Jesus, "John's followers often pray and go without eating, and so do the followers of the Pharisees. But your disciples never go without eating or drinking."

Darby English Version
And they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often and make supplications, in like manner those also of the Pharisees, but thine eat and drink?

Good News Bible
Some people said to Jesus, "The disciples of John fast frequently and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but your disciples eat and drink."

International Standard Version
Then they said to him, "John's disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do those of the Pharisees. But your disciples keep right on eating and drinking."

King James Version
And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?

New American Standard Bible
And they said to Him, "The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the {disciples} of the Pharisees also do the same, but Yours eat and drink."

New International Version
They said to him, "John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking."

New King James Version
Then they said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?”

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
And they said to Him, "The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do the same, but Yours eat and drink."

Young's Literal Translation
And they said unto him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John fast often, and make supplications -- in like manner also those of the Pharisees -- but thine do eat and drink?'


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