Please explain me this (Matt.9:14)

[Tuomoko]

Blessings to you brothers and sisters. I stumbled across an event in NT which baffles me.

Matt.9:14
Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?

Ok, that clearly says to me that the people who came to Jesus were disciples of John, right?

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

I am not so sure about who came to Jesus anymore. It looks to me that here on Mark that the people who came to Jesus were NOT disciples of John. Well, that still may be that they were, looking the text. A bit unclear passage.

Ok let's continue

Luke 5:33
And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers...

By looking only that passage we don't know who the people were. We have to go a little back now.

Luke 5:29,30
And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

So Luke implies that those were scribes and Pharisees !

So who were they after all?

a) Disciples of John  
b) Scribes and Pharisees

[tqpix]

Both a) and b).