10. As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with JESUS and his disciples.

11. When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

12. When JESUS heard it, he said to them,"Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

13. But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,'Hosea 6:6for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

14. Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"

15. JESUS said to them,"Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

16. No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.

17. Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved."

15. He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with JESUS and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

16. The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"

17. When JESUS heard it, he said to them,"Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

18. John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

19. JESUS said to them,"Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can't fast.

20. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day.

21. No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.

22. No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."

29. Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

30. Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"

31. JESUS answered them,"Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

32. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

33. They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"

34. He said to them,"Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

35. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days."

36. He also told a parable to them."No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.

37. No one puts new wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

38. But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.

39. No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"