27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. |
28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him. |
29 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. |
30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? |
31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. |
32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. |
33 And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink? |
34 And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? |
35 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. |
36 And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old. |
37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. |
38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. |
39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better. |
