16. Some of the teachers of the Law of Moses were Pharisees, and they saw that Jesus was eating with sinners and tax collectors. So they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
17. Jesus heard them and answered, “Healthy people don't need a doctor, but sick people do. I didn't come to invite good people to be my followers. I came to invite sinners.”
18. The followers of John the Baptist and the Pharisees often went without eating. Some people came and asked Jesus, “Why do the followers of John and those of the Pharisees often go without eating, while your disciples never do?”
19. Jesus answered:The friends of a bridegroom don't go without eating while he is still with them.
20. But the time will come when he will be taken from them. Then they will go without eating.
21. No one patches old clothes by sewing on a piece of new cloth. The new piece would shrink and tear a bigger hole.
22. No one pours new wine into old wineskins. The wine would swell and burst the old skins. Then the wine would be lost, and the skins would be ruined. New wine must be put into new wineskins.
23. One Sabbath Jesus and his disciples were walking through some wheat fields. His disciples were picking grains of wheat as they went along.
24. Some Pharisees asked Jesus, “Why are your disciples picking grain on the Sabbath? They are not supposed to do that!”
25. Jesus answered, “Haven't you read what David did when he and his followers were hungry and in need?
26. It was during the time of Abiathar the high priest. David went into the house of God and ate the sacred loaves of bread that only priests are allowed to eat. He also gave some to his followers.”
27. Jesus finished by saying, “People were not made for the good of the Sabbath. The Sabbath was made for the good of people.
28. So the Son of Man is Lord over the Sabbath.”