28. Levi left everything and went with Jesus.
29. In his home Levi gave a big dinner for Jesus. Many tax collectors and other guests were also there.
30. The Pharisees and some of their teachers of the Law of Moses grumbled to Jesus' disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with those tax collectors and other sinners?”
31. Jesus answered, “Healthy people don't need a doctor, but sick people do.
32. I didn't come to invite good people to turn to God. I came to invite sinners.”
33. Some people said to Jesus, “John's followers often pray and go without eating, and so do the followers of the Pharisees. But your disciples never go without eating or drinking.”
34. Jesus told them, “The friends of a bridegroom don't go without eating while he is still with them.
35. But the time will come when he will be taken from them. Then they will go without eating.”
36. Jesus then told them these sayings:No one uses a new piece of cloth to patch old clothes. The patch would shrink and make the hole even bigger.
37. No one pours new wine into old wineskins. The new wine would swell and burst the old skins. Then the wine would be lost, and the skins would be ruined.
38. New wine must be put only into new wineskins.