Why do johns disciples and 44the disciples of pharisees fast

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(1) Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and people came and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and 44the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day."

(2) John did not come eating and drinking, and they are saying, "He is demon-possessed." The son of man [that is, Jesus] has come eating and drinking, and they say, "Look at him, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners."

Behind the positive metaphors of that former unit and the negative ones of that latter, there is a similar contrast between a fasting John and a feasting Jesus. John, in other words, lived in apocalyptic asceticism, and Jesus did the opposite. But, of course, to say that Jesus was not an apocalyptic ascetic does not at all tell us what he was. What do these verses mean, and how do they relate to each other? Explain in detail what is the central theme and meaning.

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