Luke 5:28–36
28He left everything, and rose up and followed him.↗
29Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.↗
30Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”↗
31Jesus answered them,“Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.↗
32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”↗
33They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”↗
34He said to them,“Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?↗
35But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”↗
36He also told a parable to them.“No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.↗
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