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Luke 5:29-35

29Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them.

30But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

31Jesus answered them, “Those who are well don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do.

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

33Then they said to him, “John’s disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours continue to eat and drink.”

34So Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?

35But those days are coming, and when the bridegroom is taken from them, at that time they will fast.”

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