Luke 5:27-39

27After this Jesus went out and noticed a tax collector named Levi (Matthew) sitting at the tax booth; and He said to him, “Follow Me [as My disciple, accepting Me as your Master and Teacher and walking the same path of life that I walk].”

28And he left everything behind and got up and began to follow Jesus [as His disciple].

29Levi (Matthew) gave a great banquet for Him at his house; and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining at the table with them.

30The Pharisees and their scribes [seeing those with whom He was associating] began murmuring in discontent to His disciples, asking, “Why are you eating and drinking with the tax collectors and sinners [including non-observant Jews]?”

31And Jesus replied to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but [only] those who are sick.

32I did not come to call the [self-proclaimed] righteous [who see no need to repent], but sinners to repentance [to change their old way of thinking, to turn from sin and to seek God and His righteousness].”

33Then they said to Him, “The disciples of John [the Baptist] often practice fasting and offer prayers [of special petition], and so do the disciples of the Pharisees; but Yours eat and drink.”

34Jesus said to them, “Can you make the wedding guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them?

35But days [for mourning] will come when the bridegroom is [forcefully] taken away from them. They will fast in those days.”

36He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old one; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

37And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new [fermenting] wine will [expand and] burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined.

38But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

39And no one, after drinking old wine, wishes for new; for he says, ‘The old is fine.’ ”