27. And after this, Jesus went out and looked [attentively] at a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office; and He said to him, Join Me as a disciple and side with My party and accompany Me.
28. And he forsook everything and got up and followed Him [becoming His disciple and siding with His party].
29. And Levi (Matthew) made a great banquet for Him in his own house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others who were reclining [at the table] with them.
30. Now the Pharisees and their scribes were grumbling against Jesus' disciples, saying, Why are you eating and drinking with tax collectors and [preeminently] sinful people?
31. And Jesus replied to them, It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.
32. I have not come to arouse and invite and call the righteous, but the erring ones (those not free from sin) to repentance [to change their minds for the better and heartily to amend their ways, with abhorrence of their past sins].
33. Then they said to Him, The disciples of John practice fasting often and offer up prayers of [special] petition, and so do [the disciples] of the Pharisees also, but Yours eat and drink.
34. And Jesus said to them, Can you make the wedding guests fast as long as the bridegroom is with them?
35. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; and then they will fast in those days.
36. He told them a proverb also: No one puts a patch from a new garment on an old garment; if he does, he will both tear the new one, and the patch from the new [one] will not match the old [garment].
37. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the fresh wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled and the skins will be ruined (destroyed).
38. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.
39. And no one after drinking old wine immediately desires new wine, for he says, The old is good or better.