Luke 5:27-39 ▼

27 And after these things, He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. And He said to him, “Follow Me.”

28 And having left all, having arisen, he began to follow Him.

29 And Levi made a great banquet for Him in his house, and there was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

30 And the Pharisees and their scribes were grumbling at His disciples, saying, “Why do you? eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

31 And answering, Jesus said to them, “Those being in good health have no need of a physician, but those being ill.

32 I have not come to call righteous ones, but sinners, to repentance.”

33 And they said to Him, “The disciples of John fast often and make petitions; likewise also those of the Pharisees; but Yours? eat and drink.”

34 And Jesus said to them, “Are you? able to make the sons of the bridechamber fast while the bridegroom is with them?

35 But days will come also when the bridegroom shall have been taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.”

36 And He was speaking also a parable to them: “No one having torn a patch from a new garment puts it on an old garment. and if otherwise, he will tear the new also, and the old will not match the patch from the new.

37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. and if otherwise, the new wine will burst the wineskins, and it will be poured out, and the wineskins will be destroyed.

38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

39 And no one having drunk old wine wants new; for he says, ‘The old is good.’”