16And Samuel said to Saul: Suffer me, and I will tell you what the Lord has said to me this night. And he said to him: Speak.

17And Samuel said: When you were a little one in your own eyes, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord anointed you to be king over Israel.

18And the Lord sent you on the way, and said: Go, and kill the sinners of Amalec, and you shall fight against them until you have utterly destroyed them.

19Why then did you not hearken to the voice of the Lord: but have turned to the prey, and have done evil in the eyes of the Lord.

20And Saul said to Samuel: Yea I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have walked in the way by which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalec, and Amalec I have killed.

21But the people took of the spoils sheep and oxen, as the firstfruits of those things that were killed, to offer sacrifice to the Lord their God in Galgal.

22And Samuel said: Does the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat of rams.

23Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel: and like the crime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch therefore as you have rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord has also rejected you from being king.

8I will not reprove you for your sacrifices: and your burnt offerings are always in my sight.

9I will not take calves out of your house: nor he goats out of your flocks.

18And the disiples 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 your disciples do not fast?

19And Jesus says to them: Can the children of the marriage fast, as long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

20But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them; and then they shall fast in those days.

21No man seweth a piece of raw cloth to an old clothing: otherwise the new piecing takes away from the old, and there is made a greater rent.

22And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the wine will burst the bottles, and both the wine will be spilled, and the bottles will be lost. But new wine must be put into new bottles.