Mark 2:14–22

^14gAs He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, ^h “Follow Me.” So he arose and ⁱfollowed Him.

^15jNow it happened, as He was dining in Levi’s house, that many tax collectors and sinners also sat together with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many, and they followed Him. ¹⁶And when the scribes ³and Pharisees saw Him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, “How is it that He eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

¹⁷When Jesus heard it, He said to them, ^k “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, ⁴to repentance.”

Parable of Cloth and Wineskins

Matt. 9:14–17; Luke 5:33–39

^18lThe disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting. Then they came and said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”

¹⁹And Jesus said to them, “Can the ⁵friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. ²⁰But the days will come when the bridegroom will be ^mtaken away from them, and then they will fast in those days. ²¹No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse. ²²And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.”