As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, \u201cFollow me.\u201d And he rose and followed him. And as he sat at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, \u201cWhy does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?\u201d But when he heard it, he said, \u201cThose who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, \u2018I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.\u2019 For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.\u201d Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, \u201cWhy do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?\u201d And Jesus said to them, \u201cCan the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. And no one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; if it is, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013Matthew 9:9-17<\/p>
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