Matthew 9:14
Good News Translation
Then the followers of John the Baptist came to Jesus, asking, "Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast at all?"

New Revised Standard Version
Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?”

Contemporary English Version
Some followers of John the Baptist came and asked Jesus, "Why do we and the Pharisees often go without eating, while your disciples never do?"

New American Bible
Then the disciples of John approached him and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast [much], but your disciples do not fast?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the Pharisees, fast often, but thy disciples do not fast?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the Pharisees, fast often, but thy disciples do not fast?

the disciples.

Matthew 11:2 Now when John had heard in prison the works of Christ: sending two of his disciples he said to him:

John 3:25 And there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews, concerning purification.

John 4:1 When Jesus therefore understood the Pharisees had heard that Jesus maketh more disciples and baptizeth more than John

Why.

Matthew 6:16 And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 11:18,19 For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say: He hath a devil. . . .

Proverbs 20:6 Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?

Mark 2:18-22 And the disciples of John and the Pharisees used to fast. And they come and say to him: Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast; but thy disciples do not fast? . . .

Luke 5:33-39 And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but thine eat and drink? . . .

Luke 18:9-12 And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, he spoke also this parable: . . .

Context
Questions about Fasting
13Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners. 14Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the Pharisees, fast often, but thy disciples do not fast? 15And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.…
Cross References
Matthew 9:15
And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.

Mark 2:18
And the disciples of John and the Pharisees used to fast. And they come and say to him: Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast; but thy disciples do not fast?

Luke 5:33
And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but thine eat and drink?

Luke 18:12
I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.

Matthew 9:13
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