27  And after these things he went forth and saw a tax-gatherer, Levi by name, sitting at the receipt of taxes, and said to him, Follow me. 28  And having left all, rising up, he followed him. 29  And Levi made a great entertainment for him in his house, and there was a great crowd of tax-gatherers and others who were at table with them. 30  And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured at his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with tax-gatherers and sinners? 31  And Jesus answering said to them, They that are in sound health have not need of a physician, but those that are ill. 32  I am not come to call righteous persons, but sinful ones to repentance. 33  And they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often and make supplications, in like manner those also of the Pharisees, but thine eat and drink? 34  And he said to them, Can ye make the sons of the bridechamber fast when the bridegroom is with them? 35  But days will come when also the bridegroom will have been taken away from them; then shall they fast in those days. 36  And he spoke also a parable to them: No one puts a piece of a new garment upon an old garment, otherwise he will both rend the new, and the piece which is from the new will not suit with the old. 37  And no one puts new wine into old skins, otherwise the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; 38  but new wine is to be put into new skins, and both are preserved. 39  And no one having drunk old wine straightway wishes for new, for he says, The old is better.

Chapter 6

1  And it came to pass on the second-first sabbath, that he went through cornfields, and his disciples were plucking the ears and eating them, rubbing them in their hands. 2  But some of the Pharisees said to them, Why do ye what is not lawful to do on the sabbath? 3  And Jesus answering said to them, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did when he hungered, he and those who were with him, 4  how he entered into the house of God and took the shewbread and ate, and gave to those also who were with him, which it is not lawful that any eat, unless the priests alone? 5  And he said to them, The Son of man is Lord of the sabbath also. 6  And it came to pass on another sabbath also that he entered into the synagogue and taught; and there was a man there, and his right hand was withered. 7  And the scribes and the Pharisees were watching if he would heal on the sabbath, that they might find something of which to accuse him. 8  But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, Get up, and stand in the midst. And having risen up he stood there. 9  Jesus therefore said to them, I will ask you if it is lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it? 10  And having looked around on them all, he said to him, Stretch out thy hand. And he did so and his hand was restored as the other. 11  But they were filled with madness, and they spoke together among themselves what they should do to Jesus.