Luke 5:27–39

Matthew is Called

Matt. 9:9; Mark 2:13, 14

^27bAfter these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, ^c “Follow Me.” ²⁸So he left all, rose up, and ^dfollowed Him.

Jesus Eats with Sinners

Matt. 9:10–13; Mark 2:15–17

^29eThen Levi gave Him a great feast in his own house. And ^fthere were a great number of tax collectors and others who sat down with them. ³⁰⁴And their scribes and the Pharisees ⁵complained against His disciples, saying, ^g“Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

³¹Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. ^32hI have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

Jesus Teaches About Fasting

Matt. 9:14, 15; Mark 2:18–20

³³Then they said to Him, ⁱ“Why ⁶do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?”

³⁴And He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the ^jbridegroom is with them? ³⁵But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.”

Parable of the Cloth and Wineskins

Matt. 9:16, 17; Mark 2:21, 22

^36kThen He spoke a parable to them: “No one ⁷puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. ³⁷And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. ³⁸But new wine must be put into new wineskins, ⁸and both are preserved. ³⁹And no one, having drunk old wine, ⁹immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is ¹better.’ ”