Mark 2:13–28

¹³And he went out again by the sea, and all the crowd came to him, and he taught them. ¹⁴And passing by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-office, and says to him, Follow me. And he rose up and followed him. ¹⁵And it came to pass as he lay at table in his house, that many tax-gatherers and sinners lay at table with Jesus and his disciples; for they were many, and they followed him. ¹⁶And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing him eating with sinners and tax-gatherers, said to his disciples, Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax-gatherers and sinners? ¹⁷And Jesus having heard it says to them, They that are strong have not need of a physician, but those who are ill. I have not come to call righteous men, but sinners.

¹⁸And the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting; and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? ¹⁹And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bride-chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. ²⁰But days will come when the bridegroom shall have been taken away from them, and then shall they fast in that day. ²¹No one sews a patch of new cloth on an old garment: otherwise its new filling-up takes from the old stuff, and there is a worse rent. ²²And no one puts new wine into old skins; otherwise the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine is to be put into new skins. ²³And it came to pass that he went on the sabbath through the cornfields; and his disciples began to walk on, plucking the ears. ²⁴And the Pharisees said to him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath what is not lawful? ²⁵And he said to them, Have ye never read what David did when he had need and hungered, he and those with him, ²⁶how he entered into the house of God, in the section of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the shew-bread, which it is not lawful unless for the priests to eat, and gave even to those that were with him? ²⁷And he said to them, The sabbath was made on account of man, not man on account of the sabbath; ²⁸so that the Son of man is lord of the sabbath also.