Luke 5:29-35

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.”