Luke 5:27–38

²⁷And after these things he went forth, and beheld a tax-gatherer, by name Levi, sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, ‘Be following me;’ ²⁸and he, having left all, having arisen, did follow him. ²⁹And Levi made a great entertainment to him in his house, and there was a great multitude of tax-gatherers and others who were with them reclining (at meat), ³⁰and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at his disciples, saying, ‘Wherefore with tax-gatherers and sinners do ye eat and drink?’ ³¹And Jesus answering said unto them, ‘They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill: ³²I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.’ ³³And they said unto him, ‘Wherefore do the disciples of John fast often, and make supplications—in like manner also those of the Pharisees—but thine do eat and drink?’ ³⁴And he said unto them, ‘Are ye able to make the sons of the bride-chamber—in the bridegroom being with them—to fast? ³⁵but days will come, and, when the bridegroom may be taken away from them, then they shall fast in those days.’ ³⁶And he spake also a simile unto them—‘No one a patch of new clothing doth put on old clothing, and if otherwise, the new also doth make a rent, and with the old the patch doth not agree, that is from the new.

³⁷‘And no one doth put new wine into old skins, and if otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and itself will be poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; ³⁸but new wine into new skins is to be put, and both are preserved together;