²⁷After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office,^e and he said to him, “Follow me.” ²⁸So, leaving everything behind, he got up and began to follow him.

²⁹Then Levi hosted a grand banquet for him at his house. Now there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining at the table ^C with them.^f ³⁰But the Pharisees and their scribes^g were complaining to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

³¹Jesus replied to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are sick. ³²I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

A QUESTION ABOUT FASTING

³³Then they said to him, “John’s disciples fast often and say prayers, and those of the Pharisees do the same, but yours eat and drink.”^D

³⁴Jesus said to them, “You can’t make the wedding guests fast while the groom is with them, can you? ³⁵But the time^C will come^h when the groom will be taken away from them—then they will fast in those days.”

³⁶He also told them a parable: “No one tears a patch from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. Otherwise, not only will he tear the new, but also the piece from the new garment will not match the old. ³⁷And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, it will spill, and the skins will be ruined. ³⁸No, new wine is put into fresh wineskins.^A

Read in Logos

Luke 5:32: I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance…

Footnotes

C were reclining
DOther read “Why do John’s … drink?” (as a question)
C days
AOther add And so both are preserved.

Cross references

e Mt 9:9–17; Mk 2:14–22
f Lk 15:1
g Mk 2:16; Ac 23:9
h 1Sm 2:31; Ps 37:13; Ec 2:16; 12:1; Lk 17:22