28. And having left all, rising up, he followed him.
29. And Levi made a great entertainment for him in his house, and there was a great crowd of tax-gatherers and others who were at table with them.
30. And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured at his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with tax-gatherers and sinners?
31. And Jesus answering said to them, They that are in sound health have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.
32. I am not come to call righteous persons, but sinful ones to repentance.
33. And they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often and make supplications, in like manner those also of the Pharisees, but thine eat and drink?
34. And he said to them, Can ye make the sons of the bridechamber fast when the bridegroom is with them?
35. But days will come when also the bridegroom will have been taken away from them; then shall they fast in those days.