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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
Just following tradition and fasting will not make you holy, unless you listen to the word of God and understand it. Therefore Jesus encouraged those who gathered to listen to him rather than just fast for tradition`s sake.



By: INGRID GONSALVES
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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
Healing is a wholistic change. That calls for a new wineskin. New body. New strenghtened purified vessel for His precious puryfying Blood. Its the Blood of Spirituality too and our bodies cannot be engrossed enmeshed in the fleshy world to receive it. hence that purification. To which also follows a fuller enjoyment partecipation of that life God gave us. The joy of being Christians.As free''d'' children of Grace. And we ned to learn that spiritual life is real life when the earthly one fades and slowly abandons us. Fasting helps us feeling those bodily sensations. That swooning of the body and being filled with the Spirit.



By: Alessandra Parrini
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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
Maybe Jesus was trying to show the difference between Himself and John. Jesus was now among them, and He had come after John. Therefore, John was the old and Jesus the new. Things would be different now that Jesus was among them, and the people would now follow Jesus rather than John.



By: Michael Stipa
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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
While Jesus with the deciples they are glad and celebrate his presence by eating with Him.he says that there will be plenty of time later for fasting when He goes tolive with His Father in heaven.The disciples will be on their own



By: Lois D`Arcy
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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
While Jesus with the deciples they are glad and celebrate his presence by eating with Him.he says that there will be plenty of time later for fasting when He goes tolive with His Father in heaven.The disciples will be on their own



By: Lois D`Arcy
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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
While Jesus with the deciples they are glad and celebrate his presence by eating with Him.he says that there will be plenty of time later for fasting when He goes tolive with His Father in heaven.The disciples will be on their own



By: Lois D`Arcy
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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
While Jesus with the deciples they are glad and celebrate his presence by eating with Him.he says that there will be plenty of time later for fasting when He goes tolive with His Father in heaven.The disciples will be on their own



By: Lois D`Arcy
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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
Hello dear friends, I feel so happy that Jesus had to tell John the baptist`s disciples such thing b`se according to the story it seems they were fasting as a custom and any other person could do it even the pharisees.Yet Fasting according to Jesus is the weapon that we use when having troubles and it helps us through by getting the power of God.There was no reason for Jesus`s disciples to fast b`se Jesus was still with them and they had not got the holy spirit to guide them through.So to them it didn`t mean alot b`se their master was still there for them.And therefore the new and the old cann`t compared fasting to him was old and hence being a tradition yet the holyspirit he gave us was new.So it could have been to had for the Disciples to fast in the presence of their master and also without the presence of the holyspirit who gives the grace b`se remember the holyspirit fall on them after Jesus ascending to Heaven.



By: Aorone Wright
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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
The old covenant was more about the law and the new covenant was more about spirituality and the two couldn`t be combined without spoiling both.



By: Patty
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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
I think this comparison is before and after coming we to Christ. Before we are in Christ we are sinners and unsaved, not yet received his spirit. But after receiving HIS holy spirit we are now new creature in spirit. And our past life and new life in Christ cannot be same anymore.



By: Gospel Sailo
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Jesus Questioned About Fasting

John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"
Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can't fast. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day. No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made. No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."

Mark 2:18-22
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