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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?
Fasting is used for showing our sadness for the sins which we have committed. This cannot be compatible with the joy that we feel when we learn how Jesus is close to us.



By: Barney Mud
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When asked about a religious practice (fasting), why does Jesus describe how old and new may not be compatible?



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Jesus Questioned About Fasting
Jesus describe that the new are not compatible to the old are as if a sinner repends and still walks beck to sin, then he will be destroy. Therefore, as a Christians, we were being forgiven of our sins so we should not create more sins otherwise we will also perish. We should instead live a good christian life.



By: Kathleen Terado
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old and new may not be compatible
Pharisees speak of and comparing themselves with other people, only thing that people may gave attention and may have opportunity of distinguishing and exalting themselves. They are more busied attending others than thier ownselves They desire that everyone should imbrace thier particular custom and forms of devotion. But the Lord`s teaching are quite far defferent, He teaches us to Love and Serve people in a practical way.



By: narciso amabao
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Fasting was considered as a religious practice in the early times. Jesus tells the scribes that He could not put the new divine energy, unfolded in Himself, into the old forms of Pharisaism. And there was another reason for it -the presence of the Bridegroom. How could the children of the bridechamber fast while the Bridegroom was with them? He should be taken from them, and then would be the time to fast. He proceeds to insist on the incompatibility between the old Jewish vessels and the power of the gospel. The latter would but subvert Judaism, to which they sought to attach it. That which took place when the disciples went through the cornfields confirms this doctrine.



By: Manoj Thomas
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Fasting
this shows that Jesus presence portrays a change from the old teachings to the new teachings that he himself is giving to the people.



By: Bol Joseph Agau
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Hallo! My first thought goes to the teaching regarding the question of the purity and impurity and how the vessel has to be clean. We need to renew the body to host the new purified soul. So what also comes to mind is when Jesus talked about the rebuilding the temple in three days after the Resurrection. So far so good - here am turning the answer into my question for discussion - but isn`t fasting a way of controlling our insticts and potential pitfalls? as well as a form of penance. So why should it come later.It should be a way of purifying oureslves. It seems here in fact it is a practice linked to mourning - they`ll fast when Jesus is dead until He resurrects. Now it is a time of joy. Still is there a connection between the two? two seemingly unrelated interpretations?



By: Alessandra Parrini
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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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