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Mark`s Biography of Jesus - Jesus Questioned About Fasting
Fasting is a part of a ritual that is necessary or optional. It allows the spirit to free itself from the body that needs the fasting. God Bless Jesus, God and the Holy Ghost!!!! Amen!



By: Norman Diotte
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Why did Jesus always teach in Parables?



By: Robert Ochen-Chagara
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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
The Pharisees wereexperts in the Old Testament Laws of Moses. John was the Link between the old and the new. He preached baptism of repence by water. Jesus is the new covenant. His baptism is by water, fire and he sealed the new covenant with his own blood. Grace and truth came with Jesus. Successful followers of Jesus would find difficulty if they tried to fit their understanding of the new, in the context of the old. Believers of Jesus Christ simply needed to deny themselves, deny the past, take up their cross, and follow Jesus; otherwise they risk losing both the wine, and the newpatch on the old skin, thereby creating an even bigger hole ''emptiness of knowledge''. That`s what I think.



By: Robert Ochen-Chagara
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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
Well the Pharisees and John`s disciples were fasting to God by going without food for a period of time. But they didn`t realize that Jesus was the son of God and his disciples didn`t have to fast while he was with his disciples. In the Bible, fasting was usually done by people during a special time of praying to God. Jesus used that illustration of old and new wineskins to prove a point about himself. Praises the Lord! Amen!



By: Al Benavides
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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
Jesus describe the comparison between the old and new kind of fasting may not be compatible because those two will not work togeether and will be useless.



By: Sab
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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
Jesus is describing Himself as the new means of worship, and as such there must be diffeences between His way and all that have been. As the Son of God, His way was the only way.Any other way is in the past, and it is not right to try to bring the pst way into the newly established way.



By: Benjamin Ugbe
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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
To tell them that Purpose is more important then Tradition .



By: Arman Akkus
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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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